Countering Home Minister Amit Shah’s statement in Parliament last week that Kukis from Myanmar contributed to the present ethnic tension in Manipur, K. Vanlalvena, a Rajya Sabha member from Mizoram said that though his State had sheltered more than 40,000 “refugees” from the neighbouring country since 2021, they had never created any problems.
Mr. Vanlalvena’s party, the Mizo National Front (MNF), is a constituent of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA).
He was not allowed to speak on the Manipur issue even though he is the lone member representing the Mizo community in the Upper House, he said.
