"It is high time we started asking about the complicity of the Union government in the ongoing violence which has devastated Manipur. And hold the prime minister responsible for it. It needs to be said that by remaining proactively ‘inactive’ in
Manipur, it has succeeded in creating a long lasting, if not permanent division in the entire North Eastern region. It is no mean achievement for a party which rules by creating more and more division and chaos in the country.

It is inconceivable that the Modi government, which has the ability to silence all voices in Jammu and Kashmir, which proactively intervenes through its agencies in West Bengal or other states, has not been able to stop the violence in Manipur despite
saying it wants to.

Our commentariat and the opposition too has been treating the silence of the Union government as an act of callous indifference on its part. The blame is being put on Biren Singh and rightly so. But how do we explain the failure of a Union government
headed by a man who keeps asking the people across India to give power to the BJP in the states too so that he can directly control their affairs at the state-level too?

Can the Narendra Modi government say that it has not been able to contain the violence in Manipur despite the presence of an unprecedented number of central security forces and the extraordinary power that it has assumed by sending its special
representative to ‘help’ the state government?

Is it failure, or unwillingness to stop the violence?

It has been said by veteran police officers and civil servants that if violence, especially communal violence, continues for more than 24 hours, it means the authorities do not want it to stop and are very much part of it. Imagine a whole state engulfed
by sectarian violence for nearly three months! It was evident from day one that the state government was not too keen to stop the bloodshed. A government which justifies all its actions in the name of internal security, which has taken the control of the
security of large areas of states which border other countries, allows a border state like Manipur to burn for three months.

There must be a design behind this purported helplessness. " https://thewire.in/government/modi-believes-in-rule-by-chaos-in-manipur

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