Monideepa Banerjie | In Manipur, don’t allow history to repeat itself
History, they say, has a habit of repeating itself. Given Mr Biren Singh’s failure to contain violence, the most obvious step for the Centre and the BJP to take after May 3, 2023, if not immediately but certainly within weeks, was to sack the chief minister for inaction and incompetence, for failure to stop the looting of arms from police armouries, for letting Manipur turn into a war zone divided so sharply on ethnic lines they seem beyond erasure. Then dissensions began within the BJP, with around a dozen MLAs cosying up to Manipur Assembly Speaker Thokchom Satyabrata Singh and state minister Yumnam Khemchand Singh, all of them disenchanted with Biren Singh’s handling of the 21-month-old crisis. The Manipur Tapes case -- audio recordings which a Kuki group claims establishes Biren Singh’s role in the violence in the state. There are some Kuki optimists who hope that Mr Biren Singh’s exit could finally open the door to a dialogue on the way forward for the bitterly estranged ethnic groups of Manipur.
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