IT News
Imphal, Nov 8:
Congress MLA RK Imo of Sagolband Assembly Constituency and Yamthang Hoakip of Saikul Assembly Constituency has officially joined the BJP today. The two were given a rousing welcome by the family of the BJP. In a felicitation ceremony of the two Congress MLAs were given a warm reception by the National Spokesperson of BJP Dr. Sambit Patra, who is also in charge of Manipur and Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal at New Delhi.
With the Joining of RK Imo to BJP, the party now have two intending candidates from Sagolband Assembly Constituency. In the 2017 state assembly election Paojalet Touthang was the BJP candidate from Saikul Assembly Constituency. He got a total vote of 4439 but was defeated by the then INC candidate Ngamthang Haokip. Ngamthang got 5416 votes.
Mentioned may be made that, RK Imo was brought up from a strong congress family. His father, Rajkumar Jaichandra Singh was the first Union Minister from Manipur having served in the Cabinet of Rajiv Gandhi between 1985 and 1988 as the Union Minister for Sports and Youth Affairs, and later on as the Chemicals and Petrochemicals Minister. He later became the 7th chief minister of Manipur from 1988 to 1990.
Rajkumar Imo, popularly called by the people as RK Imo first got elected as representative from the Sagolband Assembly constituency in 2012. he was again re-elected as the representative from the same constituency in 2017 as an INC candidate. Interestingly, MLA Rajkumar Imo Singh was suspended from the primary membership of the Congress on the ground that he had cross-voted in the Rajya Sabha elections for BJP candidate Leishemba Sanajaoba and also for lashing against CLP leader Okram Ibobi Singh. Since then he became the unattached member of the State Assembly.
Yamthang Haokip was first elected as a member of the Manipur Legislative Assembly from the Indian National Congress ticket from the Saikul constituency in Kangpokpi District in 2012. He was re-elected again with the same party ticket in 2017.
