CM announces reward on 'rumour monger'
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, October 03 2023:
In a little twist from the present ethnic crisis, an annoyed chief minister N Biren Singh on Tuesday flayed a man and even announced monetary reward leading to the man's arrest for uploading a misleading 'rumour' on social media.
The unknown man, in his post, loaded video of a motorcade of heavy vehicles carrying huge machines ostensibly in Imphal, and said that mammoth devices carried by 20/30 trucks are probably meant for mining platinum and uranium.
Biren, in a video message uploaded in his (CM) Facebook page attached with the video by the man, clarified that the machines are meant for cleaning and dredging 'Phumdis' (floating biomasses) from the disappearing Lamphelpat (Lamphel lake) in Imphal West district.
Owing to the lake's fading status, there have been repeated flash floods during rains, affecting the people hugely, he added.
Stating that for the last four/five years the government has been making all out efforts to save Lamphelpat and to prevent it from triggering sudden floods, Biren mentioned that a work order for cleaning the lake has been released only recently.
Towards this end, the machines were brought, he continued.
"Spreading such misleading information on social media posts has confused and made the people restless and this might also lead the public to set ablaze the newly arrived expensive machines," Biren said.
"There are some people who are spreading misleading rumours in the state.
Let us be careful of such men.
Manipur will suffer if we don't punish such people in time," cautioned the CM.
Appealing to the people to help round up the said man and hand him over to the police, the CM said that "reward will be given for information leading to his arrest" .
(Courtesy; Waari Singbul Network) .