Land of Jewels (Sana Leibak)

Points heard, Chauhan readies for Delhi: Imphal, Dec 12: For the second day on Wednesday, AICC general secretary and Northeast in-charge Prithiviraj Chauhan who is currently here as a Central Observer of the party to get first hand account of the crisis within CLP continued to meet CLP members, office bearers of the party and other frontal organisations to hear their opinion on the issue. Later in the evening, Chauhan called on the Governor at Raj Bhavan to discuss the political development in the state. The Central Observer would be leaving Imphal for Delhi on Thursday to submit the report of his visit to the state with the High Command of the AICC. After the yesterday’s meeting with CLP members individually at Hotel Imphal till 10 pm, Chauhan continued his meeting with other CLP members who were left to hear the opinion on the issue of leadership crisis within CLP since 9.30 am today. According to information received by the press, the Central Observer asked each of the CLP members i...

Rebels meet PM on shake-up: Imphal, Dec 6 : The rebel Congress MLAs who have been camping at Delhi for more than a month in their campaign to remove O Ibobi from the post of Chief Ministership, called on the Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh on Thursday for an Ordinance so as to stall the delimitation exercise besides sustaining their oust-Ibobi move. Law and Legislative Affairs Minister Th Debendra who is being projected by the dissident group as their leader and Rajya Sabha MP Rishang Keishing called on Dr Manmohan Singh at about 12.30 pm and apprised the Prime Minister of the prevailing political imbroglio within the CLP. The two senior Congress leaders reportedly told the Prime Minister that replacing O Ibobi with another leader as Chief Minister of Manipur will be able to end the protracted political impasse. Acknowledging the stance of the dissident group and considering the reports culled from different quarters, Dr Manmohan Singh entrusted the party's North East in-charge P...