New Delhi:
After confirming the President’s rule in Manipur in the Lok Sabha, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor said on Thursday that he hoped that peace and general situation would soon be restored to the border state.
“Manipur discussion was essentially to approve the announcement of the President’s rule and it happened without any fundamental disagreement … Let us hope that peace and general situation will be restored,” said Mr. Tharoor.
Earlier, Union Home Minister Amit Shah transferred the proposal for the approval of the Lok Sabha for the President’s rule in the state, where ethnic violence started about two years ago.
Mr. Tharoor asked the house why he raised the issue of Manipur at 2 pm.
Mr. Tharoor said, “Today we are the biggest crisis that public belief has been eroded in the state, state of India, Manipur state and its institutions.
The Congress MP said, “At the top of this, we are watching the state facing serious challenges from illegal immigration and drug trafficking, increasing the social and economic conditions I mentioned by me,” said the Congress MP.
“Sadly, there is a situation where a prominent Manipuri woman police officer resigned with force, convicted the Chief Minister and the government for really intervening in drug investigation and drug lords.
After seizing drugs worth more than Rs 27 crore in 2018, the state government gave a valor to Ms. Thunozam. He returned the award in 2020, in which the then Chief Minister N. Biren Singh pressured him to leave the main accused and tribal leader Lukhosi Jhou, who was the chairman of the Chadel Autonomous District Council.
Ms. Thunaozam selected the assembly elections in 2022 on the Janata Dal (United) ticket. BJP’s Thokchom Satybart Singh defeated him. She is the daughter -in -law of RK Meghen, former president of the United National Liberation Front (UNLF), whose Pambi faction signed a ceasefire with the Central and State Government in November 2023.
Mr. Shah said that there has been no violence in Manipur for the last four months, adding the situation in the state is under control.
“For the last four months, there has been no violence in Manipur … I would not say that the situation in Manipur is satisfactory, but it is under control … Congress does not have that many MPs will carry forward a no -confidence motion,” Mr. Shah said in the Lok Sabha.
The valley-headed Metei community and more than a dozen different tribes are collectively known as cookies, prominent in some hilly areas of Manipur, fighting on many issues such as land rights and political representation since May 2023. More than 250 have died in violence and around 50,000 have been displaced internally.
The general category Meiteis wants to be included under the Scheduled Tribes category, while Kukis who share ethnic relations with people in the chin state of neighboring Myanmar and Mizoram, want a separate administration to be carved from Manipur, cited discrimination and uneven stake and cites strength with resources and power.
Groups, including cookie leaders and groups, who represent their tribes and have signed the controversial suspension (SOO) agreement of operations, have pointed to ethnic clashes as they have increased their demands in a separate administration, or a union area with an assembly, from an autonomous council.
Meitei leaders called this claim a lie, saying that evidence of ‘Kukland’ demand is widely available and goes back for many years. They indicate cookie ‘civil’ groups, their 10 MLAs including zomi tribes, and about two dozen terrorist groups that have come to the same level to demand and work together – as evidence of staining lines between citizens and terrorists.
