NEW DELHI, Sept 29: More than 20 MLAs of Manipur,
currently camping in Delhi, have urged the Centre to take
action against those behind the kidnapping and killing of two
youths in the restive state.
The legislators have also urged Union home minister Amit
Shah to ensure that the CBI probe is expedited.
”Most legislators present in Delhi have already asked central
government to deliver justice at the earliest. Let us ensure
justice is given in the next few days by arresting the culprits
involved,” one of the MLAs Rajkumar Imo Singh wrote on X.
He urged people in Manipur not to indulge in violence and
said all forms of agitation should be done peacefully.
”Let us ensure justice is given to the murdered students at
the earliest,” he said.
Singh said if the CBI is not able to deliver justice within the
next few days, ”let us sit down here in Delhi along with our
people to take a new course of action”.
”But let us also ensure that our common cause to save
indigenous people is not diverted, our common cause to
ensure that illegal migrants are all detected, action against
insurgent groups breaking ground rules are taken up, border
fencing is completed,” he said.
The BJP MLA said everyone should stand united in one voice.
”If we are disjointed at this point of time, people seeking new
pastures will be smiling and laughing at us making us all come
up against each other. Let us all stand together for Manipur,”
he appealed.
Singh also strongly condemned the alleged ‘act of barbarism
by the armed forces’ and asked why they can’t use water
cannons and other forms to stop such agitation.
”Armed Forces should be instructed to be more humane in
dealing with such kinds of delicate situation. Those involved
should be given punishment as per law,” he said.
Violent protests rocked Manipur’s capital for two days since
Tuesday as thousands of students protested the kidnapping
and killing of two youths, pictures of whose bodies had gone
viral.
On Tuesday night, a clash occurred between RAF personnel
and locals over the murder of the duo, prompting the law
enforcers to lob tear gas shells and fire rubber bullets at the
agitators and baton-charge them, leaving 45 of the
protesters, mostly students, injured.
On Wednesday, around 20 protesters were injured in similar
clashes with security forces.
More than 180 people have been killed and several hundred
injured since ethnic violence broke out in Manipur on May 3,
when a ”Tribal Solidarity March” was organised in the hill
districts to protest against the majority Meitei community’s
demand for Scheduled Tribe status. (PTI)
