Chief Minister N.Biren Singh Must Be Sweating Over Proposed Kuki-zo Global Rally; Here's Why?

Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh said the ethnic violence in the restive state was gradually subsiding and promised to fully restore peace in six months with the help of the central government. However, the chief minister rejected the Kuki groups’ demand for a separate administration saying that the “state can’t be broken”.

The chief minister statement is as hollow as the promised peace during this 15 months long peace process in the state of Manipur.

Singh, in an exclusive interview with PTI, said the roots of the conflict trace back to his initial tenure as chief minister from 2017 to 2022 when he aggressively targeted illegal drug trafficking and migration from neighboring Myanmar. However, the chief minister himself forgets that he is one of the drug patrons in the state. He systematically used the ‘war on drugs’ in the state to target a particular community. All his social media post and statement are a testament to the hoax ‘war on drugs’ in the state. His enmity towards a particular community leads him to labeling his own citizens as ‘Junglee,’ refugees’ and all sorts of derogatory remarks against the Kuki community. The person who championed a ‘Drug Free State’ is involved in setting free of one drug lords where his police officer tendered her resignation.

Biren suggested that those affected by his crackdown retaliated by trying to undermine his administration and the state’s stability, fueling clashes between the Kuki and Meitei communities. The Kukis, who predominantly reside in the hills and are Christian, contrast with the Meiteis, who are primarily Hindu and live in the plains and valleys. The truth however is that his discriminatory stance towards against the Kukis is what leads to the present crisis.

Biren Singh furthers his hopefulness that the government will be able to fully restore peace in the state in six months with the Centre’s help. He revealed for the first time that he has appointed an emissary to hold talks with Kuki-zo and Meitei leaders. “All this can be solved with dialogue. Dialogue is the only way,” Singh said. He identified the emissary as Dinganglung Gangmei, a Naga MLA and the chairman of the Hill Area Committee. Biren must be in his wildest dreams that his emissary have held talks with the Kuki representatives.

The Kuki Inpi, the Kuki apex body has made it clear on several occasion that the Kukis will not hold any peace dialogue with the Manipur government. Any Kukis holding dialogue with the state government will be of his own and he/she does not represent the interest of Kuki populace. Biren might have make this baseless as he could get in touch with some of his self- styled Thadou leaders who seek personal gain over the sufferings of their people.

With an audio tape involving the complicity of N. Biren Singh in the current crisis exposed, he must be sweating as he could no longer subdue the truth. Biren Singh used all his might and tries to silenced the truth by playing divide and rule among the hill brethrens. He deviously convinced sold out CSOs of the hill district to oppose the proposed rally against his leaked audio tape.