NEW DELHI: Amid contemporary violence in Manipur, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Sunday alleged that the ruling BJP needs the border state to burn because it serves its divisive politics. Rahul Gandhi expressed concern over the bloodshed and urged PM Narendra Modi to go to the state and take a look at for reconciliation.
Mocking Modi’s slogan “ek hain to protected hain”, Kharge stated, “Beneath your double engine govts, neither is Manipur ‘ek’, neither is it ‘protected’.” “Since Might 2023, it’s present process unimaginable ache, division, and simmering violence, which have destroyed the way forward for its folks. We’re saying it with utmost accountability that it seems that BJP intentionally needs Manipur to burn, for it serves its hateful divisive politics,” he stated.
Rahul stated that the current string of violent clashes and persevering with bloodshed in Manipur is deeply disturbing. “After greater than a 12 months of division and struggling, it was the hope of each Indian that the central and state govts would have made each effort at reconciliation and located an answer. I urge the PM as soon as once more to go to Manipur and work in the direction of restoring peace and therapeutic within the area,” he stated.
Congress basic secretary KC Venugopal stated, “When even ruling social gathering MLAs are usually not protected in Manipur, how can the abnormal residents have any hope for peace? The disaster has spiralled uncontrolled merely due to the PM and residential minister’s energetic option to gas the politics of hatred. The HM is busy campaigning, whereas the PM is off to one more international go to whereas Manipur burns once more.”
The Congress president stated even when Modi visits Manipur sooner or later, the folks of the state “won’t ever forgive or neglect” that he left them to fend for themselves.
