Imphal, Nov 17: While condemning the November 13 blast at Mahamani Village in the strongest term and while assuring to extend fullest cooperation to the police department, Chandel Naga Peoples Organization (CNPO) expressed strong resentment to the presence of unwanted state forces in Chandel District HQ or elsewhere.
A meeting of the Presidential Meeting convened by Chandel Naga Peoples Organization (CNPO) yesterday alleged the presence of the large number of state force in Chandel district considered as policies and programmes of state Govt. to create problems in order to solve another one.
2 AR personnel were killed injuring some in a bomb blast on Novemebr 13 at Mahamani village in Chandel district. “The blast is barbaric act” said a statement of the CNPO.
However, the CNPO statement said that the presence of large number of state force in the district creates mental torture and harassment to the people of Chandel.
The meeting of the CNPO also appealed any group(s) to restrain from such inhuman acts in future that pollute clean atmosphere of Chandel District.
“As a valley base UG has claim responsibility of the said blast, we urge the state Govt. and state forces to divert their attention towards them and not to Chandel District. We will not accept/tolerate any mechanisms of state Govt. or forces which will be detrimental to the people of Chandel”, the statement added.
It further appealed the govt. to withdraw all the surplus state force from the district in the interest of the common people.