Prof Kamson for concerted efforts to bring peace
Source: Chronicle News Service / DIPR

Imphal, June 06 2023: Former Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Prof Meijinlung Kam-son has called for concerted efforts from all sections of the society for the restoration of peace and normalcy in the state.

In an exclusive interview with the DIPR, Prof Kamson said, "Various eth-nic communities residing in the state have been living in harmony since times immemorial but the recent in-dent has affected all the communities which tainting the history of Manipur" .

He added, 'This time, the matter is turning worse even to the point that the state's territorial integrity is at risk.

In order to bring peace and tranquil-lity, all sections of the society should join hands towards bringing amicable solution and should pacify each other" .

Prof Kamson for concerted efforts to bring peace

He further said, "Till now, the cen-tral and state governments have taken up various preventive measures and constructive solutions to bring back 'the much-needed' normalcy.

As of now, the incident is being seen as a riot between the Meiteis and the Ku-kis.

But I think there is larger deeper background to it and we need to see it too.

I think the state has its own prob-lems before and the current incident is a manifestation of those unsolved pending problems" .

The former MoS said, "After Inde-pendence, since 1950s various waves of refugee influx from the Burma side had occurred.

And our inability to tackle that influx properly at that time by the then governments is one of the major reasons of the happenings today.

The blame was not entirely the governments, as the phenomenon of migration is a part of historical de-velopment" .

Prof M Kamson further said, "Anoth-er reason is the inability to complete the NRC implementation process.

What I want to comment is that the Issue should not be viewed on the surface layer, but should be looked into deeply.

Other factors such as poppy plantation and encroachments also come into play.

Both the centre as well as state government, politicians, intellectuals need to see the problem deeply as a serious issue and concrete steps should tancia .

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