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Imphal: Union Home minister Amit Shah will be in Imphal on April 15 on a one-day visit to strife-hit Manipur to campaign for the BJP candidate in the Inner Manipur Parliamentary constituency.
The Union Home minister who is also among the star campaigners of the saffron party will address a public meeting to be held at Hapta Kangjeibung in Imphal’s Palace Compound on the same day.
The BJP Manipur Pradesh has started an arrangement for the public in which other star campaigners including chief minister N Biren Singh will address.
Imphal East district administration has also granted permission to use the Hapta Kangjeibung as the meeting venue.
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Meanwhile, the Manipur Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) has expressed surprise over the visit of the Union Home minister “who failed to come” to the state after he had visited the state during the initial stage of the violence.
Addressing the media at Imphal Congress Bhavan, MPCC working president Kh Debabrata said the ill-treatment toward the people of Manipur by the ruling BJP government at the centre has been shown by the failure of the centre’s intervention to end the protracted crisis in the state.
He reminded that during his last visit to the state at the height of the ethnic violence, in the last week of May, Amit Shah had promised to visit the state after 10 days with a promise to resolve the crisis before he concluded his visit on June 2 last year.
However, he failed to visit the state and after over 300 days he is coming to the state, that too, to campaign for the BJP candidate, the Congress leader said.
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Considering this, the people of Manipur ought to boycott the scheduled visit of the Union Home minister as the central government including the Union Home minister has turned a blind eye to the plight of the people of the state, the MPCC leader added.
His visit also showed that elections are more important than the plight of the people of the state.
The Congress opposed his visit because the Union Home minister is visiting after a long time without any solution to the ongoing crisis.
The MPCC leader also demanded an official report from the state government on the supposed restoration of normalcy in Manipur as stated by prime minister Narendra Modi in a recent interview who had said that timely intervention by the centre and state governments prevented violence in Manipur.
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He said that the prime minister wouldn’t have made such a statement without receiving any report from the state government.
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