The Imphal Free Press

Imphal, Nov 25: The chief minister Okram Ibobi Singh and MPCC president Gaikhangam have returned to the state after a trip to New Delhi to brief the Union home ministry as well as the Congress high command and various other Central leaders on the existing turmoil in the state during last few days.

It may be mentioned that the chief minister Okram Ibobi had been called to New Delhi for a meeting with the Union home minister, P Chidambaram, on the situation in the state in the aftermath of the broad daylight killings at Khwairamband on July 23.

While in Delhi Ibobi also met various Union ministers and the Congress high command, Sonia Gandhi to discuss the existing tense situation in the wake of an agitation launched by the Apunba Lup, and the class boycott stir by three students bodies AMSU, MSF and KSA in support of the Apunba Lup`s agaitation demanding justice in the July 23 incident and resignation of chief minister Okram Ibobi Singh on moral ground.

The Central leaders were concerned by the total paralyses of education in the state but the chief minister apparently had convinced them he was still in charge and would end the uncertainty in the state very soon.

MPCC president, Gaikhangam who met the media this evening at the Congress Bhavan Imphal at BT Road, said that the central Congress leaders including Congress president Sonia Gandhi were briefed of the existing issues of the state including the agitation by the Apunba Lup in the aftermath of July 23 BT road incident.

The Central leaders were also briefed of problems arising from the prolonged class boycott called by the three major students bodies of the state, and appealed to concerned leaders to take serious steps to intervene in the matter, he added.

 

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