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Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will visit violence-hit Manipur on June 29-30. He will visit relief camps and interact with civil society representatives in Imphal and Churachandpur during his visit, Congress general secretary K C Venugopal said.
Sh. @RahulGandhi ji will be visiting Manipur on 29-30 June. He will visit relief camps and interact with civil society representatives in Imphal and Churachandpur during his visit.
Manipur has been burning for nearly two months, and desperately needs a healing touch so that the…
— K C Venugopal (@kcvenugopalmp) June 27, 2023
Since large-scale clashes between the plain-dwelling Meitei community and the Kuki tribe were first reported in Manipur from May 3 to 5, more than 110 people have lost their lives and thousands have been displaced.
“Manipur has been burning for nearly two months, and desperately needs a healing touch so that the society can move from conflict to peace. This is a humanitarian tragedy and it is our responsibility to be a force of love, not hate,” Venugopal added in his tweet.
Gandhi has been targeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his silence on the matter. “An all-party meeting is called when the Prime Minister is not in the country. It is clear..this meeting is not important for the Prime Minister,” Gandhi had tweeted recently.
An all-party meeting was convened by Union Home Minister Amit Shah on June 24 to assess the Manipur ethnic crisis, where the opposition parties demanded that immediate measures be taken to restore peace. The meeting saw the opposition parties targeting the government, questioning Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “silence” on the violence, and demanding, almost in unison, that an all-party delegation be sent to Imphal, which they argued would help in restoring the confidence of the people. Some of the parties, including the Congress, demanded removal of N Biren Singh as Chief Minister for his “failure” to handle the law and order situation. Some of the leaders alleged that he had been functioning in a “partisan” manner.
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