This is not the time to hold rally: Manipur chief minister N Biren Singh on Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Jodo Nyay yatra
Manipur chief minister N Biren Singh said that this is not the time to hold rally as Congress leader Rahul Gandhi started Bharat Jodo Nyay yatra from Manipur on Sunday.
Biren said last time when Rahul came there was trouble in Manipur however people are alert and there won't be fresh trouble this time.When the situation is getting better in Manipur, Rahul Gandhi and other Congress leaders are trying to make the situation more complicated, he alleged.
«Considering prevailing situation in the state, is it a time for politics by holding a rally? This is the hour of protecting lives and properties, and providing comfort and relief,” Singh told the media on the sideline of a programme in Imphal on Sunday.
Terming Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra as ‘Bharat Todo’ (break India) yatra instead, he claimed that the situation in Manipur is gradually getting better and normalcy being restored.
»Whenever he (Gandhi) comes, problems crop up. If he comes, we have to be careful and alert so that he does not mess with the situation," Singh said.
Gandhi visited Manipur for two days in June last year, weeks after the violence broke out in the state on May 3, and visited a few districts and met the affected people lodged in relief camps.
When asked as to why the yatra was not allowed to be lunched from Imphal, Biren said, «No rally is allowed in Imphal.
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The Congress on Sunday launched the 66-day long Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra from Manipur’s Thoubal district. The yatra will culminate in Mumbai on March 20 after covering 6,713 km through 15 states.
