Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma will be meeting the Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh in New Delhi requesting his intervention into the state government’s proposal for allotting defence land for the purpose of relocating 342 families of Sweepers’ Colony from Them Iew Mawlong.
Union defence minister Rajnath Singh assured a delegation of Manipur that the Centre would use IAF planes to destroy poppy fields in Manipur if the state government were to approach it for the same.