IMPHAL, August 9: Manipur People’s Party (MPP) on Friday heavily came down against the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) which has claimed that the current Indo-Myanmar fencing has not grabbed the border area of Manipur and described the statement of the latter as completely misleading.“MPP strongly condemns the statement of Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA). An ultimatum on the matter will be sent to the Prime Minister by August 12 and the party will decide further steps to be taken on the issue with the support of the public soon,” party’s president N Sovakiran told reporters here.Criticising the MHA for its statement which was widely carried in a section of Imphal local dailies on Friday, Sovakiran said that the border fence of the Myanmar side has indeed pushed up to Manipur’s border land area in kilometers and not in feet or yards.
According to the statement by Ministry of Home Affairs, government of India, "Without the settlement of the International Boundary along with Boundary Pillars on Indo-Myanmar border, it is not possible to arrive at a definitive conclusion that a particular village or land is going to be lost. For the benefit of readers, it is further clarified that the on-going fencing work is restricted to only 10 km for the present and no further work will be undertaken unless all the Boundary Pillars are finally settled through joint inspection by the National Survey Authorities of the two countries as well as the Survey & Settlement Officers and Staff of the State." The MPP leader said the party had recently brought it to the public domain that at least nine villages in the border area of Chandel district were found ceded to neighbouring Myanmar and cited that about a 1, 000 mt of land including a Church in Govajang was found inside the Myanmar border fence.An 11-team of the party had recently visited Chandel district to oversee the Indo-Myanmar fencing which led to a political storm in the state demanding re-survey of the boundary fence by various political outfits.Sovakiran alleged that the MHA was attempting to divert the border issue on the other way and said that MPP condemns it in the strongest terms.MPP spokesperson H Nabashyam demanded that the Indo-Myanmar boundary fencing should be re-surveyed with the full knowledge of the people and that the present fence must be removed.The party had on July 30 last sent a representation to the Prime Minister demanding re-survey on the disputed border fencing.
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