Manipur waiting for peace for a year, conflict needs urgent attention: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat
Citing Bhagwat’s remarks, the Congress criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for failing to visit the state since the conflict broke out.
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In his first public comments after the results of the Lok Sabha elections were declared, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat on Monday said that Manipur has been waiting for peace for over a year and the situation in the state requires urgent attention.
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh is the parent organisation of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
At a gathering of the Hindutva organisation’s workers and leaders in Nagpur on Monday, Bhagwat said that before the violence broke out in May last year, the state had been peaceful for ten years.
“It seemed that the old gun culture had ended,” the RSS chief said. “And then suddenly, the conflict that broke out there or was instigated, the state is still burning in that fire. Who will pay attention to this? It is our duty to pay urgent attention to it.”
The ethnic conflict in Manipur broke out in early May last year. Violence between the state’s Meitei and Kuki communities has left at least 224 persons dead and displaced 60,000 people from their homes since then.
Citing Bhagwat’s remarks, the Congress criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for failing to visit Manipur since the conflict broke out.
“If not the ek tihaai [one-third] prime minister’s conscience or the repeated demands of the people of Manipur, perhaps Mr...
