Imphal Times Supplementary issue 32 Congress hits back to BJP says that the NDA led by BJP must go in Nation’s interest Agency Congress senior economy”, with the rupee he has failed...,” he told mob lynchings and crimes atmosphere created by this elections. Their undemocratic New Delhi, July 4, spokesperson Anand Sharma falling to a new low and a reporters. against women were aired government,” he alleged. rule has wrecked Indian alleged that Modi had been decline in growth. “It is important in national across the world. “It is He alleged that the prime economy,” he alleged. The Congress hit back at working with malice since ”The prime minister should interest that the BJP is important to know that since minister had a mindset of The senior Congress leader Prime Minister Narendra 2014 when he came to power not complain that we want to removed from power and it is 2014, the prime minister has continuous propaganda. said the rupee had fallen to Modi for his attack on the and treated the opposition, remove him. It is not him, but not wrong for the like-minded worked with malice, ill- “He is in perpetual election an all-time low and core sector opposition, saying it was especially the Congress, as his government that should parties to get together to intentions and hatred towards mode and wants to be in a growth had fallen to 3.3 per important that the his personal enemy. be removed in national achieve this,” Sharma said. the opposition. We have state of conflict with the cent, the lowest in 10 months. government be removed in Sharma also attacked him over interest and we will work The former union minister often told him that in a opposition. It is this prime “The prime minister must national interest and there his claims on the country’s towards achieving it. The PM alleged that Modi was making democracy, there are different minister who has prevented answer to the nation,” he was nothing wrong in like- economy, alleging that the need not give us advice on “false statements” and the thoughts and views and he building of any national asked, alleging that in the last minded parties getting BJP’s “undemocratic rule has this. Whatever responsibility country suffered ignominy should respect that,” he said. consensus on key issues,” three months, Rs 46,190 crore together to achieve this task. wrecked havoc on the Indian he has been entrusted with, internationally after images of “He has treated the he alleged. had gone out of India. opposition, especially the “They are not interested in He alleged that people were Congress, as his personal the Monsoon Session. They not depositing money in DoNER Minister Dr Jitendra Singh attends enemy. Modi hates the party, have started raising issues banks and Modi’s friends because he hates dissent and which lead to conflict like in were “looting” India and criticism,” he alleged. the last session. The PM people were losing trust in “Behdienkhlam” festival at Jowai, Meghalaya Sharma alleged that it was wants to run away from his banks. unfortunate that the prime accountability before By the last term of the UPA PIB visitors from across the region Northeast over 30 times in a rail map of India. Not only this, minister makes wrong Parliament,” he alleged. government, India’s GDP New Delhi, July 4, who had come to attend the short span of four years. He in the last four years, the law statements and whatever he Taking on Modi over his increased by four times, worth festival. He also showed said that the Government has & order and security situation speaks, the facts negate it. claims on the economy, USD 2 trillion, but today in The Union Minister of State interest in the religious rituals sought to identify with every has considerably improved “This government has Sharma asked the 2018, the country’s GDP was for Development of North associated with the event. ethnic and tribal group of the towards normalcy and now, betrayed the people of the government to release the only USD 2.6 trillion, Sharma Eastern Region (I/C), Prime Dr Jitendra Singh said that his region, while the Ministry of the picturesque locales of country and deceived the comparative analysis of the claimed. Minister’s Office, Personnel, presence in the event is also a DoNER introduced the Meghalaya are flooded with country. Mob lynchings are GDP in 2012 and 2018 and it “The PM claims there is lack Public Grievances & Pensions, reiteration of the high priority practice of having a rotational tourists, he said. taking place, crimes against would clearly display how the of data on jobs. Who is Atomic Energy and Space, Dr. that Prime Minister Shri Camp Secretariat by turn every Earlier in his welcome women are rising, these BJP was failing Indian supposed to give the data Jitendra Singh today attended Narendra Modi and his month in each of the eight address, Shri O.R. Challam, images are being seen by the economy. when Chief Statistician Of the famous 4-day Meghalaya Government accords not only States and this has resulted in President, Seinraij Jowai, entire world and the country “It is absolutely necessary for India has not been appointed Annual Cultural Festival, to the development of the a very close affinity between thanked Dr Jitendra Singh for is being defamed. This is Indian economy that the BJP by the government,” he “Behdienkhlam”, held every region, but also to promote, the people of Northeast and attending the four-day happening due to the and Modi lose in next asked. year at the small peripheral preserve and patronize the the Ministry of DoNER. festival which has very town of Jowai, Meghalaya. On healthy traditional culture and It was during this Government, strong, emotional, the concluding day of the civilization of the region. Dr Jitendra Singh said, that sentimental, cultural and festival today, Dr Jitendra The DoNER Minister said Meghalaya saw its first-ever spiritual importance for the Singh spent time with the that Prime Minister has visited train and got included in the people living in this area. AR seizes dietary supplements of The 6th Round of Go To Village held at foreign origin worth Rs 1.14 crore IT News MN04 A 6843 jars (362.88 kgs) of Cellucor DIPR aided school, Medical Imphal, July 4, travelling from Moreh to C4 (dietary supplement) and Imphal, July 4, Churachandpur department conducted NCD Imphal was stopped for 1904 plastic jars (171360 Screening to 80 persons and Tengnoupal Battalion of 26 checking at Permanent capsules) of Black Mamba As a part of follow up of ‘Go also sought the village 1,PMMVY for pregnant and testing of blood sugar, Sector Assam Rifles under the Vehicle Check Post(PVCP), Ephedra (dietary supplement) to Village’ Mission, an authorities and leaders to give Lactating Mothers- enrolment of CMHT and aegis of HQ IGAR (South) Khudengthabi. While were recovered from the initiative of the government to cooperation for the success 2,IGNWPS-38, RBS-24, eleven distributed one CMHT card apprehended one smuggler frisking and carrying out baggage. deliver schemes at doorstep of of the mission as the schemes Trade Licence form issued and to a beneficiary. carrying dietary supplements thorough checking of The apprehendee the people, Churachandpur are meant for benefits of the four numbers of Renewal As a part of the camp, officials of foreign origin worth Rs 1.14 baggage, illegally imported Moirangthem Goroba Singh, District Administration has people. forms , Trade Licence of line departments conducted crore at PVCP Khudengthabi, dietary supplements of age 34 years, s/o Late conducted GTV mission camp As part of GTV mission under Registration issued-7 & awareness programmes Tengnoupal District on 02 foreigh origin were found Moirangthem Yaima Singh, r/o under Lamka Block, 18- 4-Chongkhojou (Tuilumjang) renewal forms numbering 16, related to the mission schemes July 2018. loaded in various cartons. Tera Lukram Leirak, Imphal along Zenhang covering of 8 7 villages and under 19-Saikot Revenue department – six to the locals. Altogether A statement said that at 1152 plastic jars (115200 with the recovered items have villlages at BCD Learning ((Mualbem) 3 villages also residential certificates , eight seventeen departments such arounf 5 pm , a white colour capsules) of Hydroxy Cut (fat been handed over to Customs Centre, Zenhang Lamka, covered in today‘s tribe certificates and 10 as Forest, Labour, Medical , TATA DI bearing Regd No burner) capsules, 2016 plastic Preventive Force, Moreh. Churachandpur yesterday. programme. number of income certificates Handloom & textile, Vety. and Speaking as Chief Guest the Villagers‘ redressal stalls were were issued during the camp. Agriculture etc participated Agriculture, Veterinary and opened by different During the camp, forest in the camp. Animal Husbandry Minister departments to address department distributed The camp was attended by Plantation drive by Assam Rifles V.Hangkhanlian appealed to problems of the village saplings to the peoples, Power Deputy Commissioner the villagers to remain alert peoples. There were five new department issued MSPDCL Shyam Lal Poonia, IAS and IT News event was in continuation with Naga Village Chief Association during Go to Village Mission registration forms for Chief led Bulb, ADC department Principal Secretary JC Imphal, July 4, unit’s sustained efforts towards by Chandel Battalion. The programmes and not to miss Minister‘s Hakselgi distributed Spray and Dustbin, Ramthanga IAS as guest of enhancing environmental Battalion has been working opportunities to avail benefits Tengbang, two for Veterinary department have honour and president As a follow up of the “Green awareness among locals. All with the Civil Society related to the schemes and get Scholarship for Physical with vaccinated Anti-Rabies to the respectively and also Campaign”, a tree plantation the officials and members of Organizations to create registered. And to inform their Disability (PwD), MOAPS-60, peoples , ZEO distributed free Thangboi Gangte, SDO, drive was taken up by Chandel Naga Village Chief Association awareness for a mass needs and problems face by nine registration for Financial school text books to heads of Churachandpur apart from Battalion of HQ 26 Sector took part in the event with the movement to plant trees, take them in availing the schemes assistance for poor and needy Rengkai Higher Secondary more than 500 villagers and Assam Rifles under the aegis great zeal and enthusiasm. In ownership, responsibility and to the line departments who widows, Free and travel School, Valte Khamjathang line staff were also present of HQ IGAR (South) at Chandel, this initiative, hundred to make Chandel a cleaner, were visiting the villages. He concession-(CMST)- High School and one private in the camp. on 03 July 2018. The saplings were handed over to greener and healthier district. Contd. from Page 2 The Evolution of the Meetei State Thangji Khongjomba. In the hence-forth called - Subsequently around the middle Khuman King himself settled in appointed Moirang Chief by the separate identity. In the 16th Chiefs by sending them on seventh Century, we find a ngamba (the conqueror of of the 8th century, the Luwang the capital of the Meiteis for the former, revolted against Jai century Meitei king, Koiremba, expeditions, by removal or reference in Ningthoural Mangang). Since then the king, Phantek Shoknaiba who rest of his life. The Khuman Singh alias Bhagyachandra with removed Loijangamba, the reinstatement of the Chief Lambuba to the conquest of Mangangs were merged into the reigned at Lammangdong was principality was thus annexed Burmese help. Being defeated Chief from Chief ship. ships, etc. Thus with the Chengleis (Thanga- Khambong) Meitei tribe. defeated and his principality by the Meiteis. Jai Singh fled to Assam. After However, Nonginphaba (1523- vertical integration of the seven by King Naothingkhong on his The annals of Manipur do not was devastated by the united The Moirang principality lay to his return from Assam Jai Singh 24), the Meitei king killed by salais, who at one time way home after the conquest of record any conflict between the forces of Khuman King the south west of the Meiteis. killed the Moirang Chief and Angom Chief Kiyamba. Such a independently ruled in their the Mangangs at Loiching. Yet Meiteis and the Luwangs. The Chongkhong Thongsaiba and We have alluded already about principality was then put under state of affairs continued till the well-defined principalities, into another reference in state Luwangs were ruling their own the Moirang King Ura King ’s sojourn in the the direct rule of the Meiteis. time of King Charai-Rongba a single national entity, the Chronicles, Cheitharol principality independently of the Khundaba. Subsequently, the Moirang principality. The Subsequently the Moirang (1696-1709) who finally crushed evolution of the Meities state Kumbaba, reveals that king Meiteis for several centuries Luwang lost their independence. Moirangs were then probably Chiefs appointed by the Meitei the Angoms and totally which was initiated by King Punshiba (1404-1432) also after the first century AD. But The Khuman principality lay to the most powerful principality in kings were made nobles in the emerged them into the Meitei Pakhangba, the founder of invaded and conquered the nothing worthy of attention was the south of the Meitei. They Manipur. Since then the Court of Meitei kings at Imphal. fold. Charai-Rongba Ningthouja Salai was completed Chengleis. This was the last that heard about them before and were famous for their wild and Moirangs were able to withhold The Angom principality lay to confiscated the white Chong by his succeeding generations. was heard about the Chengleis. after the reign of Luwang turbulent nature. For several their sovereignty until the middle the east of the Meeteis. Their and Shekpin, the white-sozal While the process of However, it seems very clear that Ningthou Punshiba, the centuries they made their capital of the 15th century. When capital was at Pureiromba. The insignia of the Angom kings. assimilation was going on in the since the time of King foremost king of Luwangs. He at Thoubal. Around the 7th Ningthoukhomba, the Meitei Angoms had already Thereafter, the Angom Chiefs Valley, the territorial expansion Pakhangba till their final was a renowned scholar century the Khuman Chief Adon King (1432-1467) conquered the estab1ished their principality appointed by the Meitei kings far beyond the valley and absorption the Chengleis could statesman king, who flourished Laiphengba shifted the Capital Moirangs and killed before Pakhangba usurped the occupied a very important office surrounding hills are also preserve their political identity until the middle of the seventh to Nongyai Leikoipung (Now Sanahongba, the Moirang King, throne of Kangla from the in the Chirap Court of the affected. only at the pleasure of the Century AD. Before ascending Mayang Imphal). Till the 13th the principality was lying in Khabas. Pakhangba also Meiteis. However, all evidences Manipur lost her sovereignty in Meiteis. the throne of the Meiteis in 663 Century, the Khumans were able devastation for a long time. overran and devastated the point to the fact that even 1891 to the British. But the During King Naothingkhong’s AD; Naothingkhong received to preserve their sovereignty in Since then the Moirangs came Angom Principality. But unlike though the Angoms often rose British however, re-granted the reign a small tribe called instructions on the customs, spite of the intermittent under the Suzerainty of the the Khabas, the Angoms were against the Meiteis and even state and from 21st August 1891, Mangang inhabited Loiching manner, royalty and onslaughts of the Meiteis. Still Meiteis. Instead the Moirang not absorbed by the Meiteis. In killed the Meitei king on one Manipur became a Suzerain Phouoiching as an independent administrative duties of a king the Meiteis did not choose to Chief duly appointed and the sixth century AD, Sameirang occasion or another, they were state under the British tribe. Naothingkhong invaded from Luwang Punshiba. The annex the Khuman principality installed by the Meitei Kings the Meitei King attacked and practically dominated by the government. After India became the Mangangs and defeated Luwang king died on the middle till the Khuman King Adon continued to rule the conquered the Angom by killing Meiteis since very early period free, Manipur was integrated Mangang Khongkhuchu of the seventh century when Lamyaj Kaikhinba voluntarily principality. But during Kwakpa Thawanthaba, the of history. This is evident from with the union of India on 15th Atengba, Chief of the Mangang Naothingkhong was still at the handed over the administration Gourashyam’s (elder brother of Angom king. The principality the fact that on many occasions October, 1949, and with the and brought them under Meitei Luwang capital. After his death of his kingdom to Meitei King Joy Singh) reign Khellei was not, however, annexed and the Meitei kings exercised their erstwhile nation state of supremacy. Naothingkhong was Luwangs began to decline. Kongyamba (1324 - 1335) The Nungnang Telheiba, who was it continued to preserve its authority over the Angom Manipur was dissolved.

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