Manipur Cong chief invites PM to visit state

Guwahati: Manipur Pradesh Congress Committee president K Meghachandra Singh on Friday formally invited PM Narendra Modi to visit the troubled state at the earliest, stating that the people have been “eagerly waiting for your presence in the state to place their voices of helplessness to you since the 3rd of May, 2023.”
For more than a year since violence broke out in Manipur, every section of people has been expecting PM Modi to visit the state at least once.Home minister Amit Shah visited the state for campaigning during the last Lok Sabha elections, but not the PM. Shah visited the state earlier as well, immediately after the clashes erupted last year.
Singh submitted the invitation to the PMO to draw his attention to the current issues facing the state. He was accompanied by AICC member Ningombam Bupenda Meitei.
Singh wrote that he is inviting the PM, on behalf of the people of Manipur, and as a citizen of India from the state of Manipur, “which has been in turmoil for the last 16 months.”
“As you are also aware that the turmoil has devastated the entire state with nearly a lakh of human population being internally displaced and hundreds of human lives being taken away, leaving the entire state into a complete chaos. Moreover, the recent attacks through aerial bombing using sophisticated drones, RPGs and missiles on the civilians since the 1st of September, 2024, have further escalated the turmoil with unprecedented pain, trauma, fear and complete helplessness among the people of Manipur,” Singh stated in the invite.
He pleaded with the PM to visit the state at the earliest “for the sake of humanity” and said his visit “would be of great strength in restoring peace and normalcy in Manipur.”
On the other hand, Congress general secretary in-charge (communications) Jairam Ramesh wrote on X the three-member commission of inquiry set up to investigate the causes and spread of violence and riots in Manipur has not submitted its report so far.
“It was given six months to submit its report. No report has been submitted till now. The commission has just been given time till Nov 24, 2024 to do so,” he said.
“Meanwhile the anguish and agony of the people of Manipur continues unabated. And the non-biological PM continues to make plans to travel in other parts of the country and abroad, studiously avoiding a visit to this most troubled state,” Ramesh wrote on X.
The commission, headed by former chief justice of Gauhati HC Ajai Lamba, which was set up on June 4 last year comprises retired IAS officer Himanshu Shekhar Das and retired IPS officer Aloka Prabhakar.