Agartala, Aug 19: The World Meetei Council (WMC) has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to take “immediate steps” to resolve the ongoing ethnic crisis in Manipur, which has continued for over 15 months.
Addressing the press, WMC Tripura unit President H. Bankim Singha highlighted the grave situation in Manipur, where more than 225 lives have been lost, and thousands of people have been displaced and rendered homeless.
“It is deeply distressing to see one community setting fire to another community’s properties,” Singha said.
The event was held on Sunday in Agartala.
He expressed concern over the uncertain future of children in the region, whose education has been severely disrupted.
Singha also emphasized that many people have been forced to live as refugees in their own land, with some even attempting suicide due to the unbearable suffering.
Singha stressed that it is the Prime Minister’s primary responsibility to restore peace in Manipur as soon as possible.
“Manipur is an integral part of India. If one part of a human body gets burned, the pain is felt in the entire body. The Prime Minister must step in to heal this wound before it affects the nation further,” he said.
The event on Sunday was organized by the Tripura state unit of the WMC, a branch of the Global Meetei Foundation, to felicitate students from the community who excelled in the recent secondary and higher secondary board examinations in Tripura.
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