PM Modi making plans to travel abroad but ‘studiously avoiding’ Manipur: Congress
On Friday, the Centre extended the deadline till November 20 for a commission it had appointed in June 2023 to submit its report on the violence in the state.
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The Congress on Saturday criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi saying that he is “studiously avoiding” a visit to Manipur while continuing to plan his travel to other parts of the country and abroad.
Manipur has been gripped by ethnic clashes between the Meitei and Kuki communities since May 2023. At least 237 persons have died and more than 59,000 persons displaced since the beginning of the clashes.
On Saturday, Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said that the three-member Commission of Enquiry set up by the Union government in June 2023 to investigate the causes and spread of the violence had not submitted its report.
“It was given six months to submit its report,” Ramesh said in a social media post. “No report has been submitted till now. The Commission has just been given time till Nov 24, 2024 (sic) to do so.”
On May 3, 2023, Manipur erupted and began burning.
On June 3, 2023, a three-member Commission of Enquiry was set up to investigate the causes and spread of violence and riots. It was given six months to submit its report.
No report has been submitted till now. The Commission…— Jairam Ramesh (@Jairam_Ramesh) September 14, 2024
Ramesh was referring to the commission headed by Ajai Lamba, the former chief justice of the Gauhati High Court. Retired Indian Administrative Service officer Himanshu Shekhar Das and retired...
