Key Points
The CMs statement came the same day that the Manipur Legislative assembly adopted a resolution, signed by 35 of 39 MLAs from the valley, who went on record to say that if their demands regarding the control of the ongoing violence are not met by the Central government they will take appropriate action...
Influential Meitei groups such as the Coordinating Committee on Manipur Integrity (COCOMI) feel that Singhs strongly worded statement on the role of the central forces was an indication that the message, conveyed to the CM by a delegation of COCOMI leaders who met him on 19 January had reached home...
There is an impression among the Meitei groups that the CM has been evading accountability on the ground that the unified command is headed not by him but by former Indian Police Service and ex-director general of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) Kuldiep Singh, demands for whose resignation has been growing by the day...
Meanwhile, local newspapers published from Imphal have been unsparing of Kuldiep Singh, who had been appointed security adviser to the state government on 4 May, a day after the violence erupted, and whom many view as the Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance governments agent in the state..
In its 20 January editorial titled A politician in the making, the newspaper said: A man hand-picked by Delhi just one day after Manipur went up in flames on 3 May, 2023, it is more than clear that Kuldiep Singh is here not so much as the security adviser to the Government of Manipur, but an emissary sent by the Centre to do as bade by the political leaders of Delhi...
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