Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh, who
has been facing criticism since the ethnic clashes erupted on May 3, launched a
scathing attack on people blaming the BJP for the conflict in the State, on
Friday.
“Over the past six months, I kept asking
myself. What fault did we commit? Was it a serious error to launch a campaign
to identify illegal immigrants, who otherwise would have swallowed the
indigenous people of the State?” CM Singh told BJP workers at the party’s
headquarters in capital city Imphal.
“Was it a fault to start a war on drugs
to save the youth? Was it also a fault to have stopped the massive
deforestation which destroyed the natural environment, and also led to
emergence of new villages and widespread poppy cultivation?” stated CM Singh.
“My conscience is clear. I am not wrong.
BJP is not wrong. The only fault of the BJP is to take up such initiatives to
protect the indigenous people of the State,” asserted Singh.
“If these steps had not been taken up by
the party and the government, imagine the situation of the State a decade
later,” said the Chief Minister adding, “The BJP will work for a united Manipur.
There is no other party which can save the State’s people.”
He elucidated the work done by the BJP
for the betterment of people, including implementation of the Inner Line Permit
(ILP) and removal of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, or AFSPA, from many
valley areas in Manipur.
“Prime Minister Narendra Modi ji and
Home Minister Amit Shah ji have given approval to fence around 100 km of the
Manipur section of the Indo-Myanmar border,” informed CM Singh.
“Which party or government had launched
a biometric campaign to identify illegal immigrants? The unrest we are seeing
today is because of such campaigns being taken up,” noted the Manipur Chief
Minister.
On the recent peace agreement between
the Centre and United National Liberation Front (UNLF), CM Singh remarked, “The
peace agreement was not an instant thing. It took three to four years to such
an agreement.”
PTI
