Manipur politics; Bid to diffuse BJP-Samata squabbles

IMPHAL, April 28: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national secretary (organisation) and in-charge of the Northeast border area States, P B Acharya is conducting certain political development programmes since his arrival on Thursday here, after inspecting the Indo-Bangla border conflicts recently. The visiting BJP leader is also likely to sort out the problems that have apparently cropped up between the Samata Party and the BJP. It may be mentioned here that the BJP Manipur Pradesh, had recently come out with a scathing criticism of Chief Minister Radhabinod Koijam for his "high-handedness in the affairs of governance." On the other hand, the co-convenor of the People's Front Ministry and Education Minister, Nimai, in a statement issued the following day, denied saying that "BJP can't pull down the People's Front Ministry." When The Assam Tribune contacted the State unit BJP president, Meinam Bhorot he said there is no tussle between the two parties at all. He, however, clarified that there are reports of the Chief Minister being high-handed and not taking into confidence the other major partners in the PF Ministry while making plans and policies. It may be worth mentioning here that there are six BJP MLAs in the Council of Ministers of the P F Government. Meanwhile, the national secretary (orgn), P B Acharya, visited the Manipur University to submit a detailed report on the university to the Centre. He briefly studied the condition of the university during his visit.