IMPHAL, October 17: BJP in charge of Manipur Prahlad Singh patel has revoked instruction of halting all election process of the party set-up during a personal discourse with the party`™s State returning officer Prof S Tiken yesterday over the phone.
According to a highly placed source of the party, Central leaders of the party including its national president Amit Shah expressed shock on learning that the party`™s election process has been halted.
Following reports published in some local dailies of the stopping of the election process, Prof Tiken had called the party`™s national returning officer Avinash Rai Khanna for advise at which, Khanna had replied that there is no order from the party`™s national leaders to stop the Manipur BJP election process, informed the source.
When, Tiken called on Prahlad Singh Patel regarding the same matter, he was told to wait for some time, the source said.
Meanwhile, according to the source, the party Manipur in charge had called the party`™s State returning officer late last night and told him to continue with the party`™s election process.
Following the instruction, State enrolment in charge of the party Sh Shantikumar who is also a former president of the BJP Manipur Pradesh has resumed his work from today and ensured to hand over the related enrolment documents to the SRO within the next two three days.