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As you all must be aware about the recent Manipur Crisis. This dispute is continuing for an indefinite period now and should be a daily major headline for our news sources. But this is not the case sadly. This is something we could even talk later. But laying emphasis on today’s topic of silence of PM Modi on a communal clash between the tribal groups in Manipur.

What’s the Case

The story dates back to a judgment by the Manipur High Court to include Meitei group in ST caste to give them enough reservations. But on April 27, some groups of Kuki-Zomi ethnicity broke out violence in Churanchandpur district, some days before the CM had to arrive. Then on May 3, Tribal Solidarity March was conducted by the All Tribals Student Union of Manipur, which also resulted in violent clashes.

From that day till today, many people have sacrificed their lives in the communal clashes. Both the communities are involved in illegal trafficking of weapons across the states which help them in defending against each other. Many heart-touching stories come out daily that how men are defending their security camps by carrying weapons in their own hands.

Legal Action

On April 28, Section 144 was imposed in violence hit regions and internet have been shut down.

Many rounds of delegatory meetings have taken place both at the center and state too. Even Home Minister and one the most prominent leaders of NDA faction, Mr. Amit Shah also visited the state for his meetings with the officials and also visited the security camps to ensure every basic facility is provided to the survivors. But there is not everything white in this case. As per reports, there has not been any significant difference from the start even when HM visited the state.

Hemanta Biswa Sharma has been one the major leaders of BJP and the face of North East, was also active in the round tables and in some of his recent interviews he claimed that violence has been controlled during this week, but this is not the true as per the on ground news sources.

Where is PM

It is a big question that where is PM, when one of the biggest ethnic clashes is being observe in his regime.

Is he busy taking world round trips?

Why not any word about the Manipur by him?

Is it because Manipur is a north eastern state and not a northern one?

These are some of the biggest questions by critics all over the country. PM was on a state visit to US recently, where also he dealt with a question of treating minority in a democracy.

To which he answered beautifully by describing India as the home to democracy and we lead our country according to our constitution and even minorities are happy and secured in our country. Many of the protesters were lined up during his visit, but were scattered like pieces of cards.

PM has not conveyed his messages for Manipur, not even a message conveying his sympathy to families where they have lost their young blood, which became a debatable concern for our media houses. It is not the fact that he has not been active on the concerns of his home country, be it Balasore train accident, UCC implementation or celebrating 9 years of completion of his government. He has been indulging in many public gathering in the past couple of months, but is Manipur only which he does not target at.

He is very quick in responding to any concern around the globe and even in India, any of the achievements or other. But it has become one of the trends of ignoring to react or keep silent on the main problems and renouncing the unnecessary topics. We saw his same response in the ongoing wrestler’s protest. Whereas he is not behind supporting the sportsperson by the personally texting or calling them after their major wins or loses to give them sympathy. I think it may be due to lack in his own governance . BJP is lacking the moral rule of democracy which is ‘ It is rule of people, by the people, for the people’.

News and Statistics

In my research across multiple media sources that the official twitter handle of Manipur BJP is not concerned about the crisis in their state as they are busy criticizing the opposition on some previous topics, which I think is not favorable in this serious atmosphere.

They are busy circulating Mr. Modi’s praising around the world.

PM Modi’s official twitter handle also deals with quite same kind of content, with a lots of videos of his international trips to both US and Egypt. As he was welcomed in the Senet and gave an outstanding speech over there, so his handle is full of clips of him addressing the parliament, which is also necessary but not more than the domestic concerns.

This was his first state visit to US, where he was bestowed with mixed reactions but only a polished image was highlighted in his handle.

More than 115 people have been killed and 40,000 displaced from their homes due to ethnic violence in Manipur that began on May 3. Many irrecoverable loses have left the families with a deep scare in their hearts.

Leaders of 10 opposition parties, including one former chief ministers and two former speakers on 17th June sought an urgent audience with PM Modi on unabated ethnic violence before he departed to US on 20th June. But he didn’t bother to have a word with them and left for US not attending them.

I am not only opposing PM for his silence, I know that he might be quite busy in his work for a couple of month. But in my knowledge, concerns of the domestic territory should be the first priority for a national level leader and if he is PM Narendra Modi, who is considered a messiah by many, this kind of act does not justifies his indefinite contributions for the national well being. We all have seen him in a current meeting discussing about the Manipur crisis but it should be made public by them to console the hearts of the critics.

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