Dimapur, May 7 (MExN): President’s Rule is the only choice to bring back normalcy in Manipur, stated former Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee President, K Therie on Sunday. To justify his assertion, Therie said that while the Centre’s intervention is appreciated, return to normalcy cannot be expected “with the culprit remaining at the helm of affairs.” The Chief Minister of Manipur N Biren Singh, as leader of the House, has to own moral responsibility for the breakdown. He is answerable, he said.
“He (Singh) cannot blame exparte-judgement for it cannot be without his consent or knowledge. The people have lost confidence that they are safe under his leadership,” he added. As per Therie’s account, there is nothing more serious than “losing 54 precious lives, injuring over 150 with many missing and property worth thousands of crores destroyed.”
He further claimed that “26 villages were burnt down, shops and properties destroyed and looted, people displaced with many under illegal detention” and the “centuries old relation of living as one loving family has been destroyed.” “Destroying Churches is most unbecoming, particularly in the context of the Northeast,” he added, while noting that the people of the North-East has lived happily for centuries by appreciating each other’s religions, cultures and customs and the wound is “too deep and healing will take decades if not a century.”
Accordingly, Therie maintained that the only option of the Central Government is to “urgently arrest the unrest and restore normalcy with President’s Rule and win back the confidence of the people.”
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