Manipur: Ex-BJP youth wing chief claims threats to life over video of him criticising Biren Singh

The Bharatiya Janata Party’s former Manipur youth wing chief M Barish Sharma on Monday claimed that he had received death threats from Meitei persons after a video, in which he can be heard blaming former Chief Minister N Biren Singh for the ethnic conflict in the state, was widely shared on social media, reported The Hindu.

“I have received death threats about what they will do to me, and where they will throw my body, from at least five people, after the video [went viral],” Sharma told the newspaper. “These are not Kuki people; they are Meitei.”

Sharma made the remarks about Singh earlier in the day during a sit-in protest staged by the Meitei women’s group Meira Paibis at his home in Imphal East district, according to Northeast Now.

The group was demanding an apology from Sharma for his allegedly defamatory comments about the women of Manipur in a social media post.

During a confrontation with the group, Sharma said that he was among “the first Meitei village volunteers to be arrested” by Singh, reported The Hindu, citing a translation of the remarks made in the video.

“Wherever he told us to go, we went and made war,” Sharma can reportedly be heard saying. “Let me say, Biren is the one who tried to break up Manipur.”

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