Manipur violence: Centre leaves out question on application of 'Article 355 in Manipur'
Supreme Court hearing on Manipur violence. The home ministry’s tentative list of business mentioned the question (on Article 355) initially, but the same was not in the final list, to be tabled before the Parliament on Tuesday. In Rajya Sabha, a reply on drug trafficking in Manipur may tentatively be tabled on Wednesday by one of the Ministers of State (MoS), said officials.
The border state has been caught in ethnic strife since May 3 however government sources have denied imposition of Article 355 which deals with the duty of the Union to protect States against external aggression and internal disturbance. The total number of questions listed by Member of Parliament (MPs) in Lok Sabha were ‘pruned’ from 30 to 27. The opposition parties have been demanding Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s statement on Manipur inside the Parliament while not allowing the discussion offered by union home minister Amit Shah.
A delegation of 21 MPs visited Manipur and met the victims of the violence and assured help. The 90 days violence so far has claimed 150 lives and displaced 57,000 people across the State. Amid the demands for removal of Manipur chief minister N Biren Singh, former CRPF DG Kuldiep Singh was sent as security advisor and deployed 124 companies of CAPFs and 184 columns of Army and Assam Rifles.
Home minister Amit Shah visited Manipur in June where he reached out to both the communities and appealed for peace and normalcy. According to official data, the border state of Manipur has also witnessed a three-fold rise in seizure of narcotics in 2022 as compared to 2021 due to smuggling and porous borders. The fencing work on an 80 kilometre stretch has been approved and a pilot project of 10 kilometre is on the verge of
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