New Delhi: Hours before the Manipur assembly session adjourned sine die on March 4, state police foiled an attempt by a sizeable congregation of women belonging to the Meitei community to storm the House to reassert their demand to take action against the 10 Kuki MLAs who have demanded a separate administration of the hill districts.As per local news reports, the women belonged to the Imagi Meira civil society group. Their demand has been to place in the House a report by the Privilege Ethics Committee against the 10 Kuki legislators for “trying to disintegrate Manipur” in spite of taking an oath in the assembly to protect the state and serve its people.Imagi Meira convenor Thounoujam Sujata told the Imphal Free Press on March 4 that the women’s body has been demanding a report on the matter from the Committee, and had decided to march towards it since it was not done even on the last day of the session.The report quoting Th. Sujata said, “The issue needs to be discussed on the assembly floor as what action should be taken against those 10 MLAs trying to disintegrate Manipur.”Questioning the N. Biren Singh government about not taking any action against those elected leaders, Sujata told the Imphal-based daily that the chief minister had “also expressed earlier that the present crisis is instigated by the Kuki narco-terrorists. Therefore, demanding a separate administration by the 10 Kuki-Zo MLAs showed that they are also supporting the narco-terrorists.”This is the second time since the ethnic strife broke out between the Meiteis and the Kukis that the 60-member state assembly had met. On both counts, the 10 Kuki MLAs and the majority of the 10 Naga MLAs had stayed away from it.Before the House adjourned after a five-day session, chief minister Singh told the legislators that two meetings of the tribal legislators have so far been conducted at the behest of the Union government – one in New Delhi and one recently in Guwahati – to break the deadlock between the two communities, including an attempt to bring them back to the House. He said, “A third meeting will be held with the chairman of the hill area committee (HAC).”Two days ago, the chief minister had disclosed to the House that a “reconciliation team” under the leadership of HAC chairman Dinganglung Gangmei had been formed; Gangmei was among several leaders to have met the aggrieved Kuki legislators in Guwahati this past February.The chief minister’s March 4 statement was in response to the former chief minister and Congress veteran Okram Ibobi Singh’s question to the government as to why the Union government had stayed away from directly dealing with the Manipur crisis. Ibobi Singh said it looked as if the Centre had left the people of Manipur to fight amongst themselves.Singh had also suggested a third-party intervention to sort out the differences between the two communities and make arrangements to disarm people in the state so that incidents of violence and the atmosphere of fear could be tamed.In reply, the chief minister made a few startling statements, including that disarmament of the mob has “an issue as one side took up arms due to being aggrieved (referring to Meitei groups like the Arambai Tenggol) while another side is the SoO militants (referring to the Kuki armed groups in peace talks with the Centre).”On advised to meet the Prime Minister on the Manipur issue by the Opposition leader, the chief minister said, “He was informed by (Union home minister) Amit Shah that the PM entrusted him to deal with the Manipur situation.”The chief minister also gave out some data on the missing persons cases during the ten-month-long violence in the north-eastern state. He said there were 63 missing cases in the course of the conflict, out of which 26 were found dead, nine found alive “but the other 28 cannot be traced till date.”