New Delhi [India], September 13 (ANI): Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge on Saturday slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for only planning to visit Manipur for 3 hours, calling it a “farce, tokenism and a grave insult to a wounded people.”
Kharge said that the planned road show in Imphal and Churachandpur is “nothing but a cowardly escape” to not hear the plight of people in relief camps.
“Your 3-hour PIT STOP in Manipur is not compassion — it is a farce, tokenism, and a grave insult to a wounded people. Your so-called ROADSHOW in Imphal and Churachandpur today, is nothing but a cowardly escape from hearing the cries of people in relief camps!”, Kharge said in a post on X.
He further criticised the PM for taking multiple foreign trips, while claiming that around 300 lives have been lost in the state, tens of thousands displaced.
864 days of violence: ~300 lives lost, 67,000 displaced, 1,500+ injured. You made 46 foreign trips since, but not a single visit to share two words of sympathy with your own citizens. Your last visit to Manipur? January 2022 — for elections! Your “Double Engine” has bulldozed the innocent lives of Manipur,” Kharge said.
The Congress president further trained his guns at Union Home Minister Amit Shah, saying that both the union minister’s and PM’s “gross incompetence and complicity” was shielded from scrutiny after President’s rule was imposed.
“You and HM Amit Shah’s gross incompetence and complicity in betraying all communities was shielded from scrutiny, by imposing President’s Rule in the state. Violence still continues. It is the BJP which was responsible for maintaining Law & Order in the state and it is now the Union Govt which is again dithering. Not to forget, that is your government which is responsible for National Security and border patrol,” he said.
Meanwhile in Imphal, elaborate security arrangements have been made in Manipur’s Imphal ahead of Prime Minister’s visit, with the city being decked up to welcome him. Visuals from across the state capital showed extensive deployment of police and security personnel.
PM Modi is on a three-day tour of five states — Mizoram, Manipur, Assam, West Bengal, and Bihar — from September 13 to 15.
In Manipur, the Prime Minister will lay the foundation stone of projects worth over Rs 7,300 crore at Churachandpur at 12:30 pm. These include the Manipur Urban Roads, drainage and asset management project worth Rs 3,600 crore; five National Highway projects worth more than Rs 2,500 crore; the Manipur Infotech Development (MIND) project; and working women’s hostels at nine locations.
Later in the day, Modi will inaugurate development projects worth over Rs 1,200 crore in Imphal and address a public gathering. (ANI)
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