Day after day the situation in Manipur has not improved even if it may not be witnessing the same level of gory violence and arson as it did during the month of May. The ethnic divide between the Meiteis and Kukis is too deep and will take more than words time and every sincere effort to heal. When ethnic violence exploded from May 3, the Biren Singh government failed to take immediate action and instead added more fuel to the fire by playing a divisive game. Till date, since May 3 the prime minister of India Narendra Modi has not said a word about Manipur though he had so much to say about many other things. Many political leaders, renowned former civil and army officials have expressed shock at Modi\u2019s silence. At the press conference held on Saturday in Delhi, former Manipur chief minister and Congress veteran O.Ibobi had pleaded that Modi at least say something even if it were to be for two or three minutes. Even if Modi finally speaks a word or two about Manipur after so much prodding, nothing will change. If there had been an opportunity to bring about immediate peace and law and order, then that period was during the first few days after violence and arson broke out in Manipur since May 3. However no central leader went to Manipur during the period and it was only on May 29 that union home minister Amit Shah paid a three-day visit to Manipur to take stock of the situation. In Manipur, Shah met various political and public leaders including organisations and leaders of the ethnic groups. Shah had appealed to the ethnic communities to maintain peace and assured that he will deliver justice to all who suffered. Unfortunately, Shah\u2019s message for peace and his promise to deliver justice went totally amiss because the man who is being held responsible for allowing Manipur to burn was sitting just next. Shah\u2019s appeal for maintaining peace and promise to deliver justice would have taken big leap forward if chief minister Biren Singh was dismissed. There have been far too many accusations made in the national media against Biren Singh and so his continuance at the helm was absolutely untenable. After Shah\u2019s visit concluded on June 2 on which day, he had promised to set up a high level judicial probe headed by a retired chief justice of a high court. Unfortunately, neither has the peace committee headed by Manipur governor Anasuiya Uikey been able to take off since Kuki leaders refused to be part of it since Biren Singh was also part of it. Later Meitei leaders also quit the peace panel. obviously since they couldn\u2019t be seen to back Biren\u2019s inclusion by remaining. Also the high level judicial probe headed by a retired high court judge is yet to be announced even after 23 days. Nothing concrete has taken place in Manipur despite Shah\u2019s 3-day visit from May 29 and neither has the prospect for peace seem any brighter. The Biren Singh government has lost confidence not only from Kukis but also Meitei BJP MLAs including the union minister of state for External Affairs Rajkumar Ranjan Singh, whose house at Imphal was burned by a mob. Shah and Modi know what needs to be done to move to the correct path and the sooner the better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Day after day the situation in Manipur has not improved even if it may not be witnessing the same level of gory violence and arson as it did during the month of May. The ethnic divide between the Meiteis and Kukis is too deep and will take more than words time and every sincere effort […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[685],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}