OPPN PUSHES MODI, SHAH TO THE WALL

Complete failure of PM, home minister in Manipur, says Congress

NT Correspondent

New Delhi

Amid the spike in violence in Manipur, the Congress on Monday asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to visit the troubled state before the Parliament session this month and demanded Home Minister Amit Shah's resignation for the "double engine government's complete failure" there. Congress general secretary in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh said Modi must first meet an all-party delegation from Manipur and then also call an all-party meeting at the national level ahead of the Parliament session starting November 25. "From May 3, 2023, Manipur is burning and Prime Minister Modi visits various countries of the world, gives sermons, but could not find time to visit Manipur.

So, our first demand is that the PM should take time out before the Parliament session to visit Manipur and meet political parties, politicians, civil society groups, and people in relief camps there," Ramesh said. At least 255 persons have died and 59,000 persons displaced since the clashes broke out in May 2023. The Congress also alleged that the prime minister has "outsourced" Manipur to the home minister. "There is a strange 'jugalbandi' between the home minister and the failed CM. Why the home minister has not taken cognizance of the CM's failures and why has he been attempting to save him?" Ramesh asked

. If the BJP government, the PM and the home minister honestly want to fight the drug mafia then why do they not act on the cases pending, he said, adding the immediate need was for the PM to visit Manipur. "The pain of Manipur is the pain of the country. More than 300 people have died and over 60,000 have been displaced,'' Ramesh said. The BJP got 32 out of 60 seats in the 2022 polls but within 15 months Manipur began to burn, he said.