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As Parliament Meets, What About Manipur?
Wall Street Journal | Jyoti Malhotra | November 23, 2011
When India’s Parliament opened for its winter session on Tuesday to the sound and fury of ideological attack and retreat, neither the treasury benches nor the opposition spared much thought for a corner of northeast India that has been reeling under severe shortages for nearly four months.
Since August 1, two ethnic groups — the Kukis and the Nagas — have in turn blockaded two major national highways that connect the state of Manipur to the rest of the country, because they have clashed over the federal government’s decision to create a separate Kuki-majority district called the Special Area Demarcated Autonomous Region, or SADAR, out of the existing Naga-majority Senapati district.
Political observers in Delhi and Imphal, who spoke to IRT on the condition of anonymity, believe that the reason for the blockade either reaches back into the decades-old conflict between the Nagas and the Kukis, or is simply a cynical political game masterminded by the Congress chief minister and the party high command in Delhi to keep the Nagas and the Kukis politically divided so that a third ethnic group, the majority Meitis, remains in control.
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