3 Kuki MLAs in Manipur lose House panel posts

Three Kuki-Zo legislators of conflict-scarred Manipur, two of them from BJP, have been replaced as chairpersons of separate assembly committees without assigning any reason. One of the new appointees is an MLA of the Naga People’s Front. The assembly secretariat notified the appointments by speaker Thokchom Satyabrata Singh on Wednesday. According to Rule 236A governing procedure and conduct of business in the assembly, if the chief of a house committee “for any reason is unable to act, the speaker may appoint another chairperson.”