‘Believe Us’, Pleads CM Sarma While Denying Allegations Of Making Deal With Kuki Militant Outfit

Assam Chief Minister and North-East Democratic Alliance (NEDA) convenor Himanta Biswa Sarma has denied of allegedly making a deal with a Kuki militant outfit prior to the Manipur assembly elections in 2017.

BJP Denied Allegations Of Making Deal With Kuki Rebel Groups

“I deny these allegations. We (BJP) have denied these allegation in 2018 also. But people believe in what a militant had said, but not us. Believe us not them,” said the Chief Minister.

A 2019 letter by the leader of one of the Kuki outfits under suspension of operations (SoO) to Union Home Minister Amit Shah, claimed that two BJP leader, Himanta Biswa Sarma and Ram Madhav, had taken help of Kuki organizations to win the 2017 assembly elections.

The BJP stormed to power in Manipur for the first time in 2017. In the letter, SS Haokip, chairman of the United Kuki Liberation Front (UKLF) alleged that in 2017, his organization and another Kuki outfit United People Front (UPF) got BJP candidates elected, as per an agreement with Ram Madhav and Himanta Biswa Sarma.