The ruling BJP at the Centre is orchestrating riots in Manipur, Haryana and Rajasthan in a bid to mobilise the support of the majority community, ahead of the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, claimed K. Balakrishnan, State secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in Coimbatore on Wednesday.
Demanding the removal of Manipur Chief Minister N. Biren Singh, he said the Manipur riots that began on May 3 have been going on now for three months, 150-odd lives had been lost and 70,000 tribal people were hiding, in fear, in the forests. Appreciating Tamil Nadu Chief Minister’s gesture of offering ₹10 crore worth of relief materials for those who have been displaced in the Northeastern state and are currently at relief camps, Mr. Balakrishnan exhorted the Centre to extend the same gesture. Though outwardly it appears to be an ethnic strife, the real motive behind the riots is to displace tribal people and hand over the hills to the Ambani and Adani [business] groups, he claimed.
The Prime Minister is not attending the Lok Sabha sessions and is not answering the queries of the MPs on the situation in Manipur, thus forcing the Opposition to move a ‘no confidence motion’ he said.
