Governor Anusuiya Uikey is met by a CPI (M) delegation visiting Manipur, and issues relating to displaced people are discussed

Friday, a team from the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) met with Governor Anusuiya Uikey to address the status of the internally displaced people.

A four-person team from the CPI (M), led by General Secretary Sitaram Yechury, is now in the conflict-torn state of Manipur. The team went to the refugee camps that had been established on Friday.

Since May 3, when fighting broke out between the Meitei and tribal tribes of the state, Manipur has been plagued by racial conflict. Around 60,000 people have been evacuated, and there have been over 150 fatalities. Attacks on homes, places of worship, governmental structures, and political institutions have led to a deepening of hostility between the two populations.

Yechury tweeted about their conversation with Uikey: “The CPI (M) delegation visited with the Honourable Governor of Manipur Smt. Anusuiya Uikey and held an hour-long talk.asked her to get involved to make sure the miserable circumstances in the aid camps are addressed.

Yechury told Uikey that the CPI(M) delegation visited relief camps in Churachandpur and Moirang on Friday and discovered that “arrangements made by the state government or local bodies in maintaining and running the relief camps were not satisfactory”. Yechury warned that “IDPs [internally displaced persons], especially children and lactating mothers, are deprived of nutritious food and babies are being born in the camps,” according to a statement released by the governor’s office, which PTI cited.

How long can the IDPs expect to live in such a situation? he questioned.

According to PTI, Yechury expressed concern about the theft of firearms from various police stations and claimed that only a political solution could end the ongoing crisis. Uikey also told the delegation that political parties from all sides of the political spectrum must work with the government to find a peaceful solution to the conflict.

Uikey said, “Violence will not bring any solution,” and added that both groups have been urged to abstain from it and engage in dialogue instead, according to PTI.

According to PTI, the governor told the CPI(M) delegation that she had personally pushed Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other central authorities to find a solution to the crisis as soon as feasible.

Yechury criticized the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) administrations at the federal and state levels for their “complicit callousness” when displaying images from their visit to the relief camps in Moirang and Churachandpur.

Yechury has called for the dismissal of Chief Minister N Biren Singh before to his departure for Manipur.

In an earlier letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, ten opposition parties—among them CPI (M)—said that the Manipur crises were caused by BJP policies. They referred to CM Singh as the “architect” of the problems and accused the BJP’s “politics of divide and rule in Manipur”.