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Among those in attendance at the controversial meeting of state legislators called by radical Meitei group Arambai Tenggol on Wednesday was Leishemba Sanajaoba, Manipur’s lone Rajya Sabha MP and the state’s titular Meitei king.
The Congress is set to raise with the Central government the assault on its MLA and Manipur party chief at a recent meeting called of Meitei legislators by radical outfit Arambai Tenggol in Imphal.
On Wednesday, more than 30 MLAs across party lines, a Union minister and a Rajya Sabha MP from Manipur gathered at the Kangla Fort in Imphal upon “summons” from a radical Meitei organisation. On its request, they took an oath to raise “people’s concern”. The Chief Minister of the state, N Biren Singh, was among those who signed a document containing demands of the group.
A Union Minister, a Rajya Sabha MP and almost all of Manipur’s Meitei MLAs attended a meeting at Imphal’s Kangla Fort on Wednesday morning – in response to “summons” issued to them by radical Meitei group Arambai Tenggol a day earlier.
Following a fresh bout of violence this month in Manipur, 32 of the 60 MLAs in the Manipur Assembly unanimously adopted several resolutions on Sunday. These included the demand for immediate abrogation from Suspension of Operations (SoO) with armed militants who have allegedly killed civilians and calling for replacement of the Assam Rifles.
A picture, it is said, is worth a million words. The picture of children in Manipur flanking a smiling Rahul Gandhi at the outset of his Yatra-2 conveyed what his words could not.
As Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra travelled through north Manipur towards Nagaland Monday, the tensions left by the eight-month-long ethnic conflict between the Meitei community and the Kuki tribals in the state stared it in the face.
Hoping to generate much-needed political momentum to take on the BJP in the Lok Sabha elections barely a couple of months away, senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday began his second yatra in a little over a year, outlining an amorphous vision of building a “harmonious and equitable” society as against what he called the BJP’s politics of “violence, hatred and monopoly”.