BJP state missive to party chief flags public anger
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, September 30 2023:
BJP Manipur Pradesh reportedly conveyed to its national president JP Nadda that people are angry as the state government has so far failed to contain the ethnic strife.
A letter signed by party's state unit president A Sharda Devi, vice president Ch Chidananda Singh and six others intimated to Nadda that "public anger and protest is now slowly turning the tide, putting the sole onus of this prolonged disturbance to failure of the government in dealing with the situation" .
Demanding immediate re-settlement of the displaced people to their 'original places of residence', the BJP state functionaries said: "We know our government is working day and night so as to bring back normalcy in the state and that our party at the state-level is also playing a major crucial role in coping with the new development" .
The party also highlighted demands of the people including immediate restoration of "free flow of traffic along the national highways".
The state unit also called for providing promised compensation to people whose houses were destroyed and ex-gratia to families of those killed in the ethnic strife.
It also urged for effective implementation of ground rules of Suspension ot Operations and to treat any violation as an "act of terrorism" and appealed to Nadda to apprise the "Union home ministry for early completion of the drive to record the biometric data of illegal immigrants to facilitate the early implementation of the NRC" and "to completely destroy all poppy cultivation" and "establish a joint monitoring committee for constant vigilance" .
Amid posers raised on whether or not Article 355 is being imposed in Manipur, the BJP missive to JP Nadda urged for revocation of the said legislation, if at all the same imposed in the state.
In the letter to Nadda also appended by vice presidents N Nimbus Singh and L Meen-abanta, general secretaries L Deben Singh, K Saratkumar Singh and P Premanan-da Singh and spokesperson Elangbam Johnson dated September 28 and copies of the same forwarded to party's national general secretary (organisation) BL Santosh and Manipur in charge Dr Sambit Patra, the state unit highlighted difficulties faced by the people in their day-to-day life amid the crisis and urged the national leaders to restore full command of the Unified Command to chief minister N Biren Singh as it would re-establish full confidence and trust to the government in dealing with the present situation.
It further asked the national president to extend all possible help to ensure release Moirangthem Anand who has been arrested by NIA.
All the poppy plantations in the state should be destroyed for which a joint monitoring committee should be formed with representatives from CSOs as members; biometric capturing campaign of the illegal immigrants should be completed at the earliest to enable early implementation of NRC, the letter said, while urging the national president to persuade the Prime Minister to give an appointment to the joint MLAs' team in Delhi.