Centre, State cannot remain silent: Ibobi
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, May 08 2026: Referring to the attack at three border villages of Kamjong district yesterday, former Chief Minister Okram Ibobi has asserted that the Centre and the State Government cannot remain silent to such attacks whether it was external aggression or internal aggression.

Speaking to media persons at Congress Bhavan, BT Road here today, former Chief Minister and incumbent MPCC president O Ibobi said that BJP is completing 10 years in office and during this period Manipur has been witnessing all kinds of unwanted incidents and several crises.

He said that neither the Centre nor the State Government has put in any serious effort to bring a solution to the crisis which erupted on May 3, 2023.Citing the heart-wrenching murder of two sleeping toddlers at Tronglaobi, Ibobi asked who is taking responsibility for maintaining law and order in the State.

Pointing out that Assam Rifles troops are largely responsible for guarding the State's international boundary, the former Chief Minister questioned the inaction of Assam Rifles when several houses and shops were set ablaze at the border villages.

He went on to ask whether the Centre is in charge of the State's law and order or is it the State Government.

If the attack that took place in the border villages of Manipur yesterday had happened in other States of India, the Prime Minister, the Union Home Minister and the concerned State Government would not have remained silent.

He recalled how the Government of India carried out Operation Sindoor and struck terror infrastructure beyond the international boundary following a terror attack in Kashmir.

But the Government of India has been paying no heed to the widespread violence besieging Manipur for the last three years, the MPCC president decried.

He said that the Government of India and the State Government must take responsibility for the unrest seen in Manipur today.

It is the failure of the Government to take up concrete actions to restore peace in the State that led many Meira Paibis to ask the Government to abdicate the responsibility of protecting the State and let the people defend the State, he remarked.

Questioning as to why AR troops stationed nearby did not challenge or stop the KNA-B militants from committing violence on the soil of India, the former Chief Minister asserted that the State Government does not see the border villagers as human beings as evident in the deployment of just a handful of State armed forces with arms in the border area.

"With AR troops watching silently to the daring aggression, we feel ashamed to be called Indian citizens", Ibobi said.

MPCC working president Victor Keishing said that the Kamjong sector of India-Myanmar border is totally porous.

Victor Keishing decried that the AR troops remained blind and mute to the daring aggression carried out by militants from Myanmar.

He also questioned the State Government's failure to deploy armed State forces in the border villages.

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