N Biren Singh ‘instigated division’ in Manipur, resignation ‘belated’: Congress

Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh’s resignation was belated and akin to “shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted”, the Congress said on Sunday.

Party chief Mallikarjun Kharge said that it was painful to say that “for 21 months, the Bharatiya Janata Party ignited a fire in Manipur and left the people, across communities” to fend for themselves.

“Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the real culprit of this disdain and apathy,” Kharge said on social media. “He has forgotten that Manipur is a part of India. It is high time he rejigs his memory and locate the state of Manipur on the map of India!”

The resignation of BJP’s Manipur CM is like ‘shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted’!

It is painful to say that for 21 months, the BJP ignited a fire in Manipur and left the people, across communities to fend for themselves.

Their rank incompetence and utter…

— Mallikarjun Kharge (@kharge) February 9, 2025

On Sunday evening, Biren Singh resigned as the chief minister amid allegations from Kuki-Zomi-Hmar groups that his response to the ethnic violence in Manipur was partisan, and that he stoked majoritarianism.

The violence between the Meitei and Kuki-Zomi-Hmar communities since May 2023 has left at least 258 persons dead and displaced more than 59,000.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi blamed Singh…

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