Editor’s Note: Therefore, we must talk about Manipur—again
The HinduIndia hoped for a statesmanlike address from Prime Minister Modi on the Manipur crisis, but instead got a raucous political rally. When the monsoon session opened, the opposition not only demanded that Manipur be taken up in Parliament but insisted, rightly, that the issue be addressed by the Prime Minister. Given the magnitude of the issue that is still raging in this small north-eastern State, it behoved the Prime Minister to address the Lok Sabha in all seriousness and inform it of the government’s assessment of the situation and the solutions it intended to offer to a people rent by bloodshed. Not as Manipur simmered, Nuh burnt in a communal fire, and four people had been shot dead in cold blood by a Railway Protection Force officer who chanted the Prime Minister’s name.