Inter-combustion of Manipur.


The government has today given some relaxation to the citizens of Manipur in the curfew to buy medicines and essential items, but the situation is still going to take some time to calm down. The new violence in Manipur this time is a rekindled violence from the embers below the ashes. The state police cannot control it, so the army has been sent there. Fifteen days ago, when Manipur was raging, ten thousand people had to be evacuated from the violence-hit area to safer places. This is a big number for a small state. Thousands were injured and hundreds were killed. The government had to order executions on sight. After that, the situation remained calm for about ten days, but life did not return to normal.

There was an atmosphere of terror all around, which is still the case. The reason behind the violence that erupted again this time is that the shops of the Maitei community were being closed by the people of other tribes. Due to this, the clashes started at the place of business, which soon spread all over Manipur again. Many houses have been set on fire again in Manipur in the last three days. Hordes of rioters roam the streets of Imphal like ghosts. The Union Home Minister has now turned his attention to Manipur, so the situation is likely to come under control in a phased manner. Thus, even the exceptional governments of Vajpayee or the Janata Party could not pay as much attention as the BJP has paid in the seven states of East India.

The Seven Sisters of the Northeast are as dear to Modi as mother-in-law and sister. Manipur is currently ruled by BJP. Mr. Biren Singh, a one-time popular football player of the state and later a senior journalist, is the Chief Minister but coincidences are bouncing him around like a football. Manipur's problem really started when the Manipur High Court issued a specific directive to the state government. The court could have passed the order if it so desired, but considering the sensitive nature of the matter and the relevant decision being taken by a constitutionally elected wing, perhaps Chiranjeevi chose, the learned Judges of the Manipur High Court urged the State Government to grant Scheduled Tribe status to the Maitei community. Rethink the year old demand.

This led to apprehensions among the Scheduled Tribe communities that the government may grant the Maitei community the status of a Scheduled Tribe and if it does, the Maitei people may occupy the exclusive strip of land belonging to the Scheduled Tribe. The whole of Manipur is on fire right now because of this single issue. The biggest challenge for any party government in India is equitable distribution of resources among the people and harmonious relations between different castes. Manipur is mainly inhabited by three communities. It has Naga and Kuki recognized tribal communities and they occupy ninety percent of protected land there.

The Maitei community has roughly twice the population of these two tribes, but only ten percent of the land is available to them. Mainly the Maitei people are concentrated in Imphal and a short area around where the riots are going on. The Maitei community leads the way in brilliance. He is also ahead in politics. Forty out of the sixty MLAs of Manipur belong to the Maitei community! That is why Maitei has influence in the administration as well. The Maitei community wants a share of the hills, forests, wastelands that are uncultivated, but green and fertile. There is strength in numbers, power, intelligence, but there is no right, so there are no signs that the fight will stop. Also, the storm going on now is not a storm for the demand of the Maitei community, but an advance movement of the Naga and Kuki people that the Maitei should not get their rights despite the High Court's suggestion. It is not that the government's attention has suddenly turned to the problem of the Maitei community. The center and till date all the state governments are aware of this fact. At first glance one feels sympathy towards the Maitei community, but no leader has seriously looked into this issue which has now come to the fore.

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