IMPHAL, Jan 9: A press statement signed by Nonglen Meitei of the banned Maoist Communist Party, Manipur has said that the people of Manipur are suspicious that the BJP Manipur must have taken a huge amount of money from the `corrupt government` to keep mum regarding the Loktak scandal and demanded the BJP Manipur for a clarification regarding the issue.
After the Loktak scandal was exposed by Tehalka, a magazine based in Delhi, in 2010 the follow up actions taken up by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) seems very fishy, it said.
There is a strong suspicion that the leaders of the BJP Manipur must have taken a huge amount of money from `CM Ibobi and his family, who are the main accused in the said scandal`, to bring an end regarding the issue, Maoist said.
The then BJP national president Nitin Gadkari submitted a memorandum to the then President of India Pratibha Patel on February 17, 2011 charging corruption of above Rs 63,000 crore in the north east states, it further said.
In that memorandum, it was mentioned that Rs 5000 crore has been misused in the state of Manipur. The memorandum also expressed serious concern regarding the `Loktak lake multi crore scam` and urged the President to set up a special court and to handover the case to NIA and CBI to find out the culprits, it recounted.
Maoist in its statement also recounted others BJP leaders submitting memorandum to the concern authorities urging to take action regarding the issue including BJP Manipur president Th Chaoba.
Narendra Modi during his visit to Manipur for the MP election had also promised to bring out the truth regarding the Loktak issue, it said.
Now it has passed six months that the BJP is maintaining silence over the issue. Narendra Modi during his visit to Manipur to attend the Sangai Festival had not said a single word on the issue, it resented.