Bhakta Charan Das slams N Biren, BJP

    04-Dec-2021
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By Our Staff Reporter
IMPHAL, Dec 3: AICC Manipur in-charge Bhakta Charan Das has lambasted Chief Minister N Biren for the latter’s call to the masses, “Give us (BJP) votes, we will bring peace in Manipur”.
Speaking to media persons at Congress Bhavan here this morning, Bhakta Charan Das said that BJP has been indulging in all kinds of arm-twisting tactics and violent activities.
Citing the mandate given by the people of Manipur in 2017, the AICC Manipur in-charge asserted that the incumbent Government was formed forcibly by resorting to arm-twisting tactic.
He went on to charge that whatever BJP did violated the Constitution.
As a result of the Rath Yatra taken out by two MPs in the 1990’s in Delhi, curfew was imposed in 52 cities and large scale violence broke out in different parts of the country.   
The particular Rath Yatra also created a sharp division between different communities, Bhakta Charan Das said.
Saying that people have not forgotten the Godhra incident, he questioned the nature of peace the BJP-led Government has brought in Manipur.
He said that the State Government has not yet taken up a single scheme which would provide livelihood to people in the rural areas of the State.
The Government is ignorant of the sufferings of rural people and yet the Government has been carrying on its Go to Village campaign without ever trying to understand the real problems of rural people, he said.
Instead of implementing the different schemes taken up by the UPA Government  in rural areas, the BJP-led Government has been completely neglecting the woes of rural people, he continued.
Bhakta Charan Das categorically stated that it was unbecoming of Chief Minister N Biren to call upon voters to vote for BJP by promising peace in return.
He went on to question if the Chief Minister was implying that he would deliberately create disturbances in the State if the people do not vote for BJP.
By using such rhetoric, the Chief Minister was indirectly intimidating the public.
N Biren’s call ‘give us votes, we will bring peace’ is highly objectionable. As such, N Biren should amend the particular statement, the AICC Manipur in-charge demanded.