Militant outfit threatens to kill Congress workers

Imphal, Sept 7 (PTI) A militant outfit has issued death threats to Congress workers in Manipur alleging that the party had worked for merger of the state with the Indian Union in October 1949.

The banned Kangleipak Communist Party (KCP) said the Congress party had worked for merger of Manipur with the Indian Union in 1949 and because of this they would start killing Congress workers, in a statement issued here yesterday.

Congress party sources said they had not received any threat from any militant outfit.