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Imphal, Aug 16:
Chief Minister N. Biren Singh along with the 6 congress MLAs who had recently tendered resignations from the 11th Manipur Legislative Assembly and Congress MLA RK Imo have left Imphal today in a special charter flight for New Delhi to meet the Central BJP leaders.
All together 14 including the 7 MLAs, the Chief Minister and 6 others Personal Secretary of the CM and RK Imo with the OSD of the Governor of Manipur left Imphal in a special Spice Jet charter flight at around 2.30 pm today. The six Ex-MLAs who had left for New Delhi are O. Henry, MD Abdul Nashir, Oinam Lukhoi, Paonam Brojen, Ngamthang Haokip and Ginsuanhau.
Details of the visit has not been let known to the public but, there has been talk around in the political circle that the Chief Minister may be urging the Central leadership to reshuffle his Ministry by allotting two among those resigned MLAs. However, a source with the Imphal Times said that the visit is in connection with the assurance of the BJP party tickets to those resigned MLAs in the by-election that is expected to hold along with the Andro Assembly constituency by-election.
A highly reliable source said that even though the Chief Minister may have some desire to reshuffle his Ministry, he may not pursue the matter to the Central leadership as there are possibilities of crisis if a reshuffle takes place. The source added that the Chief Minister is on a mission to prove the sincerity of the 6 Ex-Congress MLAs who have resigned for the sake of the BJP’s leadership and may pursue the central leaders to make sure that all the six of them are recognized by the Central BJP leaders and to assure them BJP tickets in the upcoming by-election.
