Manipur News: In the midst of ethnic strife, what unites the Kuki and Meitei communities?

CM is far from taking responsibility for delaying action against culprits, crowd of two parading meitei men cookie zoe women Naked on May 4, a day after violent ethnic clashes in Manipur.

While there has been debate as to why this is so BJP Biren Singh to resign or may not even be asked, within the state the people in Manipur have lost faith in their democratically elected head of the Legislative Assembly.

As historian and academic Ramachandra Guha has pointed out, BJP Asking Biren Singh to resign would mean admitting that the CM and his government could not handle the Manipur crisis properly. and a few months before 2024 Lok Sabha ElectionsThe saffron party would certainly like to stay away from any such admission.

However, according to a report BBCBoth the communities show a lack of trust in the federal and state government.

Chief Minister of Manipur, N Biren SinghThe man, who belongs to the Meitei community, promised “strictest punishment including death penalty to the accused”. But when asked about demands for his resignation for failure to resolve the conflict, he said, “Don’t want to get into it, my job is to bring peace to the state and punish the miscreants.”

While analysts say the viral video of the sexual assault of two Kuki Zoe women has brought the nation’s attention back to the violence in the north-eastern state of Manipur. more peibisor the torch-bearers – also known as the mothers of Manipur – who felt that the incident portrayed Manipur society in a bad light.

All residents of Manipur demand that the state and the central government should ‘treat both the communities fairly’.

Ethnic violence erupted in India’s north-eastern state of Manipur on 3 May 2023 Meitei people, the majority who live in the Imphal Valley, and the Kuki tribal community from the surrounding hills.

a judge on 20 April 2023 Manipur High Court The state government was directed to “consider the request for inclusion of the Meitei community in the Scheduled Tribe (ST) list.” cookies There was a fear that getting ST status would allow Meiteis to buy land in the forbidden hill areas.

This triggered violent protests and the rest of the news is being reported everyday for almost three months now!

UPDATE: July 24, 2023, 10:51 PM IST