IMPHAL, October 19: Getting the President`™s assent for the three bill passed by the State Assembly on August 31 is the responsibility of the Congress government, said BJP Manipur Pradesh president Th Chaoba during a one day political conference at Lilando Lampak Thongju Constituency.
He said if the Ibobi government is unable to get the President`™s assent for the three bills, it should resigned on moral grounds and the BJP will bring in a peaceful Manipur
The conference was organised by party workers of 5/1, 5/2 and 5/3 polling stations of the constituency.
It is unfortunate that the Congress government in the State has fixed the responsibility to get the President`™s assent for the three bills and the responsibility for the recent signing of the Peace accord between the Government of India and the NSCN (IM) on the State BJP, Chaoba lamented.
It is sad for a party which has formed the government in the State and has three MPs, he continued.
When it should be pressuring the Centre to give assent to the three bills, why has the Congress fixed the responsibility to the BJP Manipur Pradesh, he said.
People are aware that the BJP has no MLA in the State Assembly and no MP in Parliament and that the NDA government had to power in the Centre only a year back, he said.
The BJP demand a detail report of the meeting between Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh and deputy Chief Minister Gaikhangam and the Prime Minister in connection to the Peace Accord and the three ILP bills, he said.
It is learnt that the Prime Minister had come out with a smile on his face after the meeting, he said demanding the details of the meeting.
Chaoba further asked why the Chief Minister has not replied to any of the statements made by the Chief Ministers of Nagaland and Mizoram on the issue of the bills.
He said, being the Chief Minister, Ibobi must know all the details and needs to face his counterparts from neighbouring States.
As for the NSCN (IM) Accord, when the Centre`™s interlocutor RN Ravi visited the State, he didn`™t meet the BJP leaders but met the Chief Minister, Chaoba claimed.
The BJP State president also alleged that the Congress knows nothing but corruption and that there has been no development in the State during the last 13 years of its rule.
Citing that Manipur is the only State left where the Food Security Act 2013 is not implemented, he alleged the Congress has been cheating the people for long.
He also claimed that the government has been siphoning off development funds of NREGA.
Although all rice loads for the implementation of the Food Security Act have been brought in from the Centre since 2013, the same have been sold off through back doors without providing it to the beneficiairies, he claimed.
Although Gaikhangam has charged Bishwajit the former Thongju MLA of not taking up any developmental work in his constituency, the deputy Chief Minister seem to have forgotten the condition of his own constituency, Chaoba asserted.
He said it is evident from the condition of the roads in Khoupum that no develop works have been undertaken in the deputy Chief Minister`™s constituency although it is his fifth term.
On the other hand, Thangmeiband ex-MLA Joykishan has demanded that if the government is able to provide satisfying answer to a few queries, he will not file nomination for the bye election in his constituency.
He asked as to why only three MLAs were disqualified from among four MLAs in the same case.
He further asked why disqualification of O Lukhoi of Wangoi Constituency was revoked after a case was filed before the High Court
He further demanded as to why the Congress government to take up the case of the merger of five MSCP MLAs into the Congress till date.
Disqualify the five and we will not file nomination paper for the by election, he said.
Former MLA Thongju Th Bishwajit and other BJP State leaders also attended the conference.