Manipur BJP MLA claims violence a result of CM Biren Singh government's ‘complicity’

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Kuki Zo women being paraded naked by a mob of Meitei men went viral earlier last week.  While the incident shook the nation, several has been accusing Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh of delaying action. Opposition has been demanding the resignation of the CM, and a debate in the Parliament involving Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who only broke his silence on the matter after the viral video angered Indians.  In an opinion article in India Today, Manipur BJP MLA has said that the violence in Manipur as a result of "complicity of the state".

Manipur BJP MLA Paolienlal Haokip is one of the 10 legislators from indigenous communities who had earlier written to CM Biren Singh seeking a separate state for districts dominated by Kuki Zo community.  In the opinion article the BJP MLA has said, “Proof of state complicity can clearly be discerned from the fact that what started out as a purely ethnic-communal violence was later on attempted to be portrayed by the Chief Minister as the state's war on 'narco terrorists'".  “The narrative seemed to be aimed at justifying the use of state forces to aid the radicalised Meitei militia in attacking and burning down Kuki Zo settlements in the foothills surrounding the Imphal valley, beyond which it doesn’t seem to hold much water." the BJP MLA added in his opinion article.  CM N Biren Singh who enjoyed majority support in the state is also a part of the Meitei community.  The indigenous community MLAs who had written to CM Biren Singh in May, seven of them belonging to BJP, had said the violence was perpetrated by the valley-majority Meitei community and was "tacitly supported" by the BJP-run state government. Since the horrendous video of the