Imphal, Dec. 16: Accusing the Manipur Congress of not doing enough to stall delimitation in the state, the Opposition Manipur Peoples Party today sent a two-member delegation to Delhi to push for maintenance of status quo in the Assembly constituencies with the central leadership.

The MPP’s move comes barely a week after chief minister Okram Ibobi Singh led an all-party delegation to Delhi to lobby for the cause.

MPP president L. Chandramani Singh and legislator Okram Joy Singh, who will meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi during their visit, are also planning to tap other national parties to seek their help.

“Our party feels that if we also join the all-party delegation in its effort to maintain status quo by putting more pressure separately, the central leaders and the Delimitation Commission will take the matter more seriously,” an MPP leader said.

The all-party team, during its meeting with officials of the Delimitation Commission on December 10, had urged the commission to maintain status quo in the Assembly constituencies until the report of the 2001 census was corrected.

The parties argued that delimitation of constituencies would be a self-defeating exercise if it was based on the ‘incorrect” 2001 census report. The faulty census apparently revealed an abnormal growth in population in some parts and no change in others.

This is the second time that Ibobi Singh led an all-party delegation to Delhi on the issue of delimitation in the past three months. The delegation, however, failed to meet the Prime Minister and Union home minister Shivraj Patil.

The MPP alleged that the Ibobi Singh government was not doing enough to convince the Centre of the need to maintain status quo. “Instead of working unitedly, the Congress is now a divided house. The party is more interested in the tussle for power. If anything happens as a result of the delimitation, the present government should be held responsible,” he said.