The Congress party on Tuesday launched a strong critique of the Narendra Modi government after 13 individuals, suspected to be members of the outlawed People’s Liberation Army (PLA) terror group, were killed in a gunfight in a remote border village in Manipur’s Tengnoupal district on Monday. Taking on the Modi government over the incident, Congress general seretary Jairam Ramesh said that the state’s situation is far from the claims of normalcy by the central government.
Ramesh alleged inaction by the Centre on the Manipur crisis and said that while the Home minister claims that peace has returned to the north eastern state, the ground realities are different. “It has been 7 months now. The situation in Manipur continues to be far from normal. Just yesterday came news of a fresh round of violence which took the lives of thirteen people. Earlier, a public sector bank had been looted and some Rs. 18 crore carried off,” he said in a post on X.
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“The Home Minister claims peace has returned but ground realities are to the contrary. And of course, the Prime Minister carries on with his inexplicable silence on Manipur, along with his refusal to meet with Manipuri leaders or visit the state,” Ramesh said.
(With inputs from PTI)