Newmai News Network Imphal | November 22 Manipur Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) has apprised the President of India for disclosure of the contents of the Framework Agreement signed between the Government of India and NSCN (IM) on August 3, 2015. Taking advantage of the visit of President Ram Nath Kovind to Imphal, MPCC leaders led by its chief TN Haokip, former Chief Minister O Ibobi Singh, former Deputy Chief Minister Gaikhangam met the former this morning at Raj Bhavan here and submitted a memorandum. Speaking to media persons at Congress Bhavan in Imphal this evening, O Ibobi Singh said MPCC sought the intervention of the President of India to “request the Prime Minister and the Home Minister to safeguard the territorial integrity of Manipur”. The MPCC also asked not to create “another problem while solving other problems,” Ibobi added. “The Congress party will welcome if the Framework Agreement will bring a permanent solution to all without threats to the territorial integrity of Manipur,” he further said. The former Chief Minister claimed that Kovind assured them to “look into the matter”. The memorandum said, “…the prolonged silence in unfolding the contents of the Framework Agreement signed between the Government of India and the NSCN-lM on August 3, 2015 amounts to conscious abetment to misleading apprehension with dismal future in all manifestations.” The “so-called conspiracy of silence”, it stated, “may tell heavily upon the peace process and may even invite an uneasy beginning of the end.” It added, “One fact is re-affirmed and made categorically clear that the threat to the integrity of Manipur; territorial, administrative, financial, cultural and political can never be tolerated under any design of settlement. Manipur should remain Manipur as it is today”. Any attempt to destabilise the status quo of political and economic structure rooted in the history of Manipur, it further said, should be construed as “negation of political maturity and ideals of human civilisation fraught with grave consequences.” This will be catastrophic for Manipur and devastating for the region, it cautioned. “We do hope the historic visit of the President of India marks a new era of restoration of faith in the commitment of the Government of India to peace, stability and prosperity of Manipur by disclosing the contents of the Framework Agreement,” it demanded. MPCC asserted it is the constitutional birth right of the “indigenous people” of Manipur to know the contents of the Framework Agreement.
