IMPHAL, July 28: The Manipur Peoples`™ Party has charged that it would be difficult for the bill drafting committee constituted by the government to draft a bill which would serve the interest of the indigenous people under its present chairman Th Devendro.
Making the allegation, MPP president N Sovakiran told media persons that Th Devendro who has always promoted foreigners to bank on their votes will find it difficult to draft the bill to safeguard the interest of the people.
He was speaking at a press conference at the party`™s Imphal office.
He charged Jiribam MLA Th Devendro of turning illegal immigrants from countries like Bangladesh into electors in his constituency to strengthen his vote bank.
Now the government has handed him the responsibility of preparing a draft to safeguard the interest of the people, which is hard to believe, he continued.
The MPP is unconvinced that the drafting committee under the present chairman would be able to come up with a satisfying bill, he observed.
He further demanded a report on the status of the bill preparation from the drafting committee.
The present turmoil in the State is due to the government`™s neglecting recommendations from experts and the all political parties committee led by Gaikhangam, he said.
Now as such the new drafting committee should report on its status every few days, he demanded.
Today, there are several localities in the State with foreign names; this is all because of MLAs like Devendra who allow foreigners to settle down so that these illegal immigrants could act as their vote banks, he claimed.
Now there are villages with names like Islamabad in Jiribam, Sovakiran charged.
All the ministers in the Congress government in the State led by Okram Ibobi Singh and Gaikhangam have been on foreign tours, yet they have no concern to bring the same development they had witnessed during such trips in the State, he charged.
The government it seems is more concern of the contract works, he alleged.
The failure of the Congress government is quite evident from the present issues like the leakages at the Thoubal Multi-purpose Project dam, he observed.
He said people have started to flee from their villages fearing that the dam leakages could create havoc if allowed to go unchecked.
However, the government is still unable to provide assurance to the people residing in the downstream villages that the dam will not collapse, he continued.
The Chief Minister had assured that the Sekmai Dam will not collapse but it has collapsed recently, he claimed.
The hanging bridge on Barak River had also snapped recently which is also anther failure of the government, he claimed.
The most number of cracks appearing in government constructed buildings have come up during the last 13 years of the Congress government, which is because of failure to maintain quality during construction, he alleged.
The government should be responsible for all these, however, it has failed to take up any action against any official he said.
Never has the present government ever taken a timely solution to an issue, he charged.
He continued even the police personnel involved in the death of Sapam Robinhood have not been suspended till date.
The education sector has been shut down for the past many days, and there is no visible solution for the schools to open in the near future, he claimed.
The MLAs of buying fertile soil at low prices and selling it off to the government for the construction of the National Sports University, Sovakiran further charged.