Congress to approach President
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, May 27 2023:
Decrying that neither the Prime Minister nor the Union Home Minister has been paying any attention to the ethnic conflict besieging Manipur, the Congress legislators of Manipur have decided to approach the President of India.
As in other parts of the country, the 59th death anniversary of India's first Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru was observed at Congress Bhavan, BT Park here today.
Speaking on the occasion, CLP leader O Ibobi hailed Jawaharlal Nehru as a freedom fighter who dedicated his life for India's independence.
The world knows Jawaharlal Nehru as the architect of modern India and he worked tirelessly for peace across the world through the Non-Aligned Movement, Ibobi said.
On the ethnic crisis besieging the State, Ibobi said that the violence which erupted on May 3 has claimed many precious lives while a large number of houses have been burnt, rendering thousands homeless.
But the State Government has not yet taken up any concrete action to contain the violence while the Central Government has been maintaining a deafening silence, said the former Chief Minister.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah came to Guwahati recently to distribute employment letters to employees but he did not bother to visit which has been literally burning all these days.
To Amit Shah, distribution of employment letters was more important than paying any visit to Manipur, Ibobi decried.
He went on to ask whether the Central leaders do not see the people of Manipur as citizens of India.
People know very well how the Central leaders would have reacted if the ethnic violence besieging Manipur had happened in any big State of India, he said.
The Centre need to take up all possible measures to control the situation.
The casualty would have been much lesser had the Union Home Minister come to Manipur or sent a capable representative and intervened within the first week of the violence, Ibobi said.
Questioning the reluctance of the Union Home Minister to visit the State even after 24 days of the raging violence, the CLP leader asked whether the Central Government does not see Manipur as a State of India.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah's schedule to visit Manipur on May 29 is too late.
It appears that the Central leaders are quite happy to watch the people of Manipur suffer all kind of misery, he continued.
BJP Central leaders' attitude of taking the Manipur crisis very lightly is a matter of grace concern, he said.
As neither the Prime Minister nor the Union Home Minister has shown any intention so far to control the situation and resolve the crisis, Congress party would approach the President of India with an appeal to end the ethnic violence and save Manipur, Ibobi said.
Ibobi said that the five Congress MLAs of the State and AICC CWC Member Gaikhangam would call on President Droupadi Murmu on Monday, if appointment is granted.
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