‘Ideology Won’t Bring Peace’: Manipur Congress Targets Bhagwat’s Three-Day Visit
Congress accuses RSS chief’s trip of ignoring victims for organisational gains.
Manipur Pradesh Congress Committee President Keisham Meghachandra Singh launched a scathing attack on RSS Sarsanghchalak Mohan Bhagwat’s three-day visit to the strife-torn state, asserting that deepening the ideological footprint of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh cannot and will not resolve an ethnic conflict that has already claimed more than 260 lives, displaced over 60,000 people, and shattered social harmony since May 2023.
In an official statement released on Friday, Singh expressed profound disappointment that, instead of the Central government dispatching a high-level political team armed with a concrete peace roadmap, restoration timeline, and rehabilitation package, the first major visit from Delhi after months of turmoil appears centred on reviewing and strengthening RSS organisational machinery across the state.
The Congress leader underlined that Manipur’s crisis demands accountable governance, an impartial unified command structure under central oversight, transparent timelines for the safe return of displaced families to their villages, strict action against administrative lapses, and inclusive confidence-building measures between the Meitei and Kuki-Zo communities rather than closed-door organisational meetings.
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Singh cautioned that prioritising the expansion of any ideological network while thousands remain in relief camps, schools remain shut, and armed groups still control pockets of territory risks sending a devastating message to the suffering population that organisational growth matters more than human lives and lasting peace.
He reiterated the party’s stand that Manipur urgently requires healing, justice for victims, protection of all communities irrespective of ethnicity, and restoration of constitutional machinery, warning that political or ideological visits cannot substitute for decisive governmental action while the state continues to reel under President’s Rule following the resignation of former Chief Minister N Biren Singh amid widespread criticism of his administration’s handling of the violence.
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