Narda Ningthouja
Imphal, Manipur
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OpinionPosted on 23 Nov 2024
The Chief Minister hails the fresh induction of CAPF by the Union Home Minister while the Security Advisor boasts of 288 CAPF companies in place right now. They are talking of their deployment in fringe areas and ongoing combing operations to weed out subversive elements. They would claim that, combing operations would happen in both the valley and hills. But it remains to be seen how they are going to deal with the Kuki militants with SoO cover during the operations.
Posted on 16 Nov 2024
Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh is busy sharing the tweets of the Prime Minister and other leaders including Home Minister Amit Shah and JP Nadda in issues like assembly elections in other states. He even touched upon the conflict with Canada, but he has no time for the six abducted innocent women and children or of AFSPA.
Posted on 9 Nov 2024
Except for some rumblings and discordant voices, none of BJP MLAs have actually come forward to voice their grievances vis-à-vis the present Manipur situation in public.
Posted on 2 Nov 2024
Meitei Sareng breeds and flourishes mostly in our riverine systems. It is carnivorous and predatory. Stocking them in the pond with other fish varieties is not advisable.
Posted on 26 Oct 2024
The demand for termination of SoO with Kuki militants and of a broad-based plan or process for bringing back normalcy in the state is simply absent. Although the SoO agreement with the Kuki groups lapsed on February 29, it is still considered to be in operation as the central government has done nothing to close down the SoO designated camps.
Posted on 19 Oct 2024
Not only Khongjom Lan, some elements are trying to incorporate the revolt of Sana Chahi Ahum or Prince Narendra as a part of 1857 Sepoy Mutiny. All along, Manipuris had been resisting such attempts at incorporation by mainland elements.
Posted on 12 Oct 2024
The move of village documentation is indeed a clever ploy to expose the Kuki elite.
Posted on 5 Oct 2024
When the retired general made the claims, we thought he must have had his reasons of saying so. But when a sitting general and serving Army Chief makes a claim which is beyond his purview and mandate it becomes stranger than fiction.
Posted on 28 Sept 2024
Discontent and lack of trust would remain the same unless there is a definitive change in Centre’s attitude towards the Manipur crisis and the way it is being handled by the political leadership in the state.
Posted on 21 Sept 2024
Extreme suffocation due to inhaling of teargas fumes leading to death is indeed a rare case. One could imagine the number of teargas canisters fired in that particular area where that particular pregnant woman was taking cover which led to her ultimate demise. There needs to be a judicial inquiry of the particular incident.
Posted on 14 Sept 2024
The Manipur government or the police think shutting down internet services would check the spread of unverified news or rumours among the general public and that is why it chose to close down internet in the valley districts and impose curfew. Banning internet services closed down all options of clearing up unverified news and rumours, while clamping of curfew restrictions have resulted in making life immobile and disturbing the daily routine of everyone.
Posted on 7 Sept 2024
A change of guard at the helm of affairs would not be a solution. A change of the whole set of MLAs, including the Opposition is necessary, which would only be possible by dissolving the present legislative Assembly.
Posted on 30 Aug 2024
In the wake of the present ethnic clashes in Manipur, the force of Assam Rifles was somehow drawn into the eye of the storm with the Kukis celebrating them as their protectors and the valley population accusing them of a bias against the Meiteis.
Posted on 24 Aug 2024
The necessity of adding ‘Zo’ began to be felt in either assertion of distinctive identities or for seeking a wider support base including their kith and kin in neighbouring Mizoram state.
Posted on 17 Aug 2024
Prime Minister Narendra Modi did not talk about the Manipur imbroglio in his August 15 Independence Day speech from the ramparts of Red Fort. Well, nobody here is talking about why Modi did not mention Manipur in his speech. Maybe, people have grown tired of asking why every now and then.
Posted on 3 Aug 2024
In the wake of the present ethnic clashes in Manipur, the force Assam Rifles was somehow drawn into the eye of the storm with the Kukis (later Kuki-Zo) celebrating them as their protectors and the valley population accusing them of a bias against the Meiteis. The credibility that they had built up over the decades were suddenly gone.
Posted on 27 Jul 2024
One wonders why does one need to extend invitations personally or otherwise to attend Assembly sessions. Even though the media, both local and national, have made a big story out of it there is no need for invitations. When a session of the Assembly is being called, there is no need for ‘invitations’ as it is a public notification while attendance is mandatory.
Posted on 19 Jul 2024
Off and on since the commencement of ethnic clashes in Manipur, the national highways particularly the Imphal-Dimapur and Imphal-Jiribam roads continue to be under a sort of blockade, economic or otherwise.
Posted on 13 Jul 2024
While BJP Manipur (in-charge) Ajeet Gopchade is trying hard to calm ruffled feathers among the general populace, Chief Minister N Biren Singh is trying to justify Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s absence and denial of the Manipur situation, besides their failure to convince the PM.
Posted on 6 Jul 2024
Howsoever nonchalant the Prime Minister be, Inner Manipur MP Angomcha Bimol Akoijam struck the right chord by invoking a comparison of Modi’s uncaring silence with the attitude of British colonialists then.
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