Th Chaoba, President of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Manipur Pradesh alleged that Suspension of Operation (SOS) signatory Kuki underground groups vote for congress candidates, while the NSCN (IM) openly forced voters to vote for Naga People’s Front (NPF) during the recently concluded ADC election.
The relation between NPF and Naga underground group is confirmed and BJP has the supporting evidence to prove it. Involvement of underground groups marred the election and undermined the democratic electoral process, the BJP leader said.
Chaoba said that out of the 6 ADC districts- 3 are Naga inhabited areas where NPF and NSCN (IM) works together hand in hand while Congress and Kuki armed groups together ruled in other 3 Kuki districts. Naga and Kuki underground groups openly serve their dictates to vote in favor of their supporting candidates. Kidnapping, threatening, booth capturing are the means that they employed during the election.
Despite of BJP’s appeal to underground groups not to disturb the election, they came out of came out of their designated camps created havoc.
Most of the uncontested candidates were from BJP however they were forced to join the Congress or NPF under gun point. The state Home Minister should clarify on the nature of winning the election without contest by congress and NFP candidates, he demanded.
It is the responsibility of the state home department to control the armed groups who have signed the SoS with the government.
