‘Why has PM not found time to visit violence-hit Manipur’: Congress takes swipe at Modi’s Assam tour
Says situation increasingly disturbed in Northeast
New Delhi: As Narendra Modi is on a visit to Assam, the Congress has attacked the Indian government over what it termed the increasingly disturbed situation in different parts of the Northeast, and asked why the PM had not found time to visit the violence-hit Manipur yet.
According to Kashmir Media Service, Modi took the elephant and jeep safari inside Assam’s Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve on Saturday morning. Modi is on a 2-day visit to the state.
Taking a swipe at Modi for finding time amidst his various travels to spend morning in Kaziranga, Congress leader and party’s general secretary Jairam Ramesh said that beyond Kaziranga, there are several questions for him on the increasingly disturbed situation in different parts of the Northeast of India.
The Congress leader also said that Manipur has been in a state of virtual civil war for nearly a year now. “Hundreds of people have died in widespread violence, lakhs have been displaced, communities are at war with each other, and the administration has collapsed,” he said.
Ramesh said that the violence still continues with two youths in Moreh beaten up on March 7, and Junior Commissioned Officer (JCO) Konsam Kheda Singh of the Indian Army kidnapped from his own house in Thoubal district by militants on March 8.
“Why has the Prime Minister, ordinarily misusing taxpayer’s money to campaign around the country, not found the time to visit Manipur yet, or even take a call with the Chief Minister and the political parties of the state?” Ramesh said.
Ramesh said the Eastern Nagaland Peoples’ Organization (ENPO) has declared a “public emergency” in Eastern Nagaland threatening to disallow any political party from campaigning or contesting elections in the region to protest the delay in the creation of a ‘Frontier Nagaland Territory.’ Even as the situation becomes increasingly more tense and threatens to disrupt the rule of law and democracy in Nagaland, the Indian government appears to be missing in action, Ramesh said.
