PM Modi must personally intervene to restore peace in violence-hit Manipur: Sharad Pawar-led NCP

The Sharad Pawarled Nationalist Congress Party NCP on Friday said peace continues to elude strifetorn Manipur despite Prime Minister Narendra Modis assurance in Parliament and demanded his immediate interventionThe Shiv Sena UBT also sought to know what the Bharatiya Janata Party BJPled government at the Centre was doing to improve the situation in ManipurPM Modi assured the country that peace will be restored in the state of Manipur soon but it eludes the state and violence continues there Clyde Crasto national spokesperson of the NCP said in a statementYesterday the private residence of Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh was attacked If this can happen to a person in government one can understand what the common people of Manipur are suffering for months he saidThis inability to stop violence in the state is the failure of both the state and the central government which is headed by BJP he saidTherefore our PM Narendra Modi ji must now personally intervene in this sensitive matter by calling the warring communities of Manipur understand their reason for unrest and find a way to bring truce between them and eventually restore peace in Manipur Crasto addedMeanwhile Shiv Sena UBT leader Sanjay Raut said the situation in Manipur is very bad and the government the Union Home Ministry and the Defence ministry have failed to restore peaceStudents have been killedWhat is the government doing he askedThey made the new Parliament building but no discussion on Manipur was allowed Raut addedThis is deliberate attempt to foment unrest before 2024 he allegedManipur descended into chaos and untrammelled violence in May this year over a high court order directing the state government to consider including the nontribal Meitei community in the list of Scheduled TribesThis order led to rampant ethnic clashes More than 170 people have been killed and several hundred others injured since ethnic violence first broke out in the state on May 3 when a Tribal Solidarity March was organised in hill districts to protest against the majority Meitei communitys demand for ST statusA fresh bout of violence broke out in the state capital on Tuesday a day after photos of the bodies of two youths a man and a girl who went missing in July went viral on social mediaA mob tried to attack the CMs empty ancestral house on Thursday night despite heavy security clampdown and curfew in Imphal valley Security forces however foiled the attempt after firing several rounds of tear gas shellsThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever