Withdraw ‘mute’ Central forces from Manipur, Amit Shah urged
The HinduGUWAHATI A day after a gun-and-bomb attack killed two persons, including a woman, a Manipur Bharatiya Janata Party legislator urged Home Minister Amit Shah to withdraw Central forces from the State for allegedly remaining aloof to the violence around. In a letter to Mr. Shah on Monday, Rajkumar Imo Singh said the Central forces “are mostly present as mute spectators” and the deployment of 60,000 personnel in Manipur was not yielding peace. Mr. Rajkumar Imo Singh further urged that the Central government “has to hand over” the unified command in the State to the Manipur government headed by Chief Minister N. Biren Singh as the “present set up isn’t able to halt such violence”. The Coordinating Committee on Manipur Integrity, an Imphal Valley-based organisation said the armed “immigrant Kuki groups” used an ambulance to infiltrate into Meitei villages.