Lok Sabha Chief of Opposition (LoP) Rahul Gandhi on Monday requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to journey to Manipur to supply solace to state’s residents who’ve been impacted by ethnic violence. The Congress MP mentioned that his social gathering will do all the things it might to carry peace to Manipur. Gandhi described the Manipur tragedy as “great” throughout a press convention held in capital Imphal. “The Prime Minister ought to go to the state and take heed to the woes of the individuals as it could give consolation to them,” Gandhi suggested.
He claimed that he travelled to the state to be able to hear in regards to the struggling of these affected by violence and to provide them hope. “We’ll exert each effort to revive concord to Manipur… I have been trying to exert strain on the federal government as a member of the opposition,” he added.
Manipur is a proud State of the Indian Union – each patriot ought to attain out and assist carry again peace right here.
Within the face of this big tragedy, I request the Prime Minister to return right here, take heed to the individuals and supply them consolation.
Congress social gathering is able to assist something… pic.twitter.com/C6aplaBjnL
— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) July 8, 2024
Gandhi paid visits to numerous the reduction camps housing these uprooted by the ethnic violence within the state’s northeast. Since Might of final yr, the battle has taken the lives of over 200 individuals. The Lok Sabha LoP paid a go to to Manipur Governor Anusuiya Uikey on Monday whereas he was within the state.
After visiting reduction camps in a number of areas and interacting with victims of ethnic violence, the Congress chief met with Uikey within the night on the Raj Bhavan. Particulars on the roughly 45-minute-long minute aren’t but out there.
That is Gandhi’s third go to to the state since ethnic tensions erupted in Might final yr. Earlier within the day, the previous Congress president visited reduction camps in a number of areas.
Refugees from the ethnic violence that has killed over 200 individuals within the northeastern state since Might of final yr are being housed in these camps.
