MANIPUR: Congress party & allies fighting tooth and nail for a new government

MANIPUR: Congress party & allies fighting tooth and nail for a new government

                As the number game getting serious in the political war between BJP-led Government and Congress. The Congress party of Manipur and its allies have reconstituted a Secular Progressive Front (SPF) with Former-CM O Ibobi as its leader and urged the Governor Njama Heptulla to conduct a special session of Assembly. Including the four NPP, Trinamool Congress which has one MLA and an Independent MLA are walking together in this new political alliance arising in this sudden tide of political war. Speaking to media persons at a Congress camp here this evening, ex-Chief Minister O Ibobi who is leading the SPF said that if the people of Manipur want a new Government in place of the incumbent Government, the new Government would also be a coalition Government because no single party has enough MLAs to form Government on their own. He said that memoranda have been submitted to the Governor and the Assembly Speaker this afternoon to convene a special session of the Manipur Legislative Assembly and hold a floor test of Chief Minister N Biren’s Government. The Governor has been requested to summon a special session of the Assembly at the shortest possible time to vote on the no-confidence motion moved against the present ‘minority’ Council of Ministers to protect democracy in the State, Ibobi said. Congress party was saying that it would remain as a constructive opposition party. Ibobi informed that they have obtained an appointment with the Governor at 5 pm tomorrow. To a query, the CLP leader said that there are 27 Congress MLAs in total. “The SPF formed today is not a totally new one but the fourth incarnation of a similar alliance and I have fair experience of running a coalition Government”, Ibobi claimed