Biren Singh: Prime Minister Narendra Modi In the backdrop of Congress’s repeated demand for Manipur to visit, Chief Minister N Biren Singh on Thursday (January 23, 2025) questioned whether the state would be hit by another caste crisis in the 1990s. The then Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao had done this.
The Chief Minister also accused the Congress of creating problems in Manipur and held the state’s BJP-led government responsible for it. Biren Singh told reporters here, “Did (then) Prime Minister Narasimha Rao protect the state during the ethnic conflict between the Nagas and the Kukis between 1992 and 1997 or the violence between the Paitas and the Kukis (in 1997)?” Had visited? Then more than 1000 innocent people lost their lives.
Rao held the post of Prime Minister from 1991 to 1996.
Rao, a leader of the Congress Party, held the post of Prime Minister from 21 June 1991 to 16 May 1996. Singh alleged that Congress was not allowing its MPs from Manipur to speak in Parliament. He said that the opposition party is doing politics on the situation in the state. He said, “Under the guidance of Prime Minister Modi, (the situation) in the state is improving day by day. The law and order situation is improving. They (central government) are doing everything as per the demand of the people.
‘Not everyone knows the affairs of Manipur’
CM Biren Singh said, “We want a concrete solution to the ongoing conflict.” These are not just political issues. These old issues are the creation of Congress and now they are blaming us. God and people will not forgive them.” On Union Minister and Arunachal Pradesh BJP leader Kiren Rijiju’s statement that the Kuki-Meitei conflict has tarnished the image of the Northeast, Singh said the affairs of Manipur are not known to everyone. .
‘We pay as we go’
The Chief Minister said, “The issue of the state is known to those who have met the Union Home Minister.” Amit Shah Like he has kept the state in his heart. This was his (Rijiju’s) personal view.” On Wednesday (January 22, 2025), JD(U)’s Manipur unit wrote a letter to Governor Ajay Kumar Bhalla about withdrawing support to the BJP-led state government. When asked about this, Singh quipped, “As I have said, we fill as we do.” Meitei and Kuki in Manipur from May 3, 2023. There is violence between communities, in which more than 250 people have been killed and thousands rendered homeless.
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