GUWAHATI: A distinguished personal college was set ablaze in Manipur’s Jiribam district Friday amid escalating tensions in sure areas of the strife-scarred state in latest days, studies Kangkan Kalita.
The assault on Blooming Flower Faculty in Jiribam city – an space predominantly inhabited by tribal teams – got here three days after NDA legislators representing Meitei, Kuki and Naga teams met for “conciliatory” talks in Delhi on residence ministry invitation.
Authorities attributed the torching to “disputes” throughout the college administration. Hmar Inpui, the apex physique of the Hmar tribe, blamed the arson on Meitei militant outfits.
“We aren’t contemplating the incident from a communal perspective. It was doubtless attributable to a private or management-related dispute,” mentioned an officer, including {that a} probe was underway.
