LAMKA, September 27: BJP Manipur Pradesh member Hangkhanpau said he had joined the party at the behest of the party president Th Chaoba.
Speaking to the media in a press conference held at the PTC conference hall, Hiangtam Lamka Churachandpur, the ex-minister said Chaoba had personally extended an invitation to him to join the party resulting in his joining the party in the interest of the people on January 13, 2014.
Hangkhanpau, who had refused the post of vice president of the party said he had high respects for the president but has to do what is needed of him as he sees no future of the State unit of the BJP under the tutelage of the present president.
The Suspension of Operation with the Kuki militants had expired on August 22, and there has not been action from the Centre yet, however, the party president who has been visiting the national capital frequently since the expiration of the agreement had never tried to intervene on the issue, which has only helped in the delay, he elaborated.
He said the BJP State unit president seems to be biased in his dealings with the people of the State.
He said what is the point in allowing the president to continue when he had been in the news for all the wrong reasons, with the reports of corruption being the most disturbing, he observed.
While ruling out himself and others for the post of the party top post, he said the party president should be someone who has been in the party for six years uninterrupted.
Now, Dr H Borbabu being a non-corrupt and honest politician will be the best suitable to lead the State unit of the party, he said.
The party`™s fundamental stand of being anti-corruption has been compromised under the present leadership, he continued.
Further explaining on the issue of his suspension from the party by Chaoba, Hangkhanpau said he is still very much a member of the party as the major reasons for his suspension has no validity and not accepted by the party`™s central leaders.
On being asked as to whether the central leaders are desisting from getting involved in the State`™s issues, he said the leaders are busy due to elections in some major States including Maharashtra.
With the MDC and MLA elections on the cards, we have to think fast and make amends to the ills to the party, he continued.
The present leaders seem only interested in money and not in winning the elections as their strategy in the last MP election showed, he lamented.
He further said that he was very much for the settlement of the SoO issue but the present president of BJP, Manipur has no urge to solve the issue.