Congress slams PM Modi’s ‘3-hour pit stop’ to violence-hit Manipur

Speaking with reporters in Wayanad, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra also hit out at the PM and said he should have visited the state long before.”I am glad that he has decided, after two years, that it is worth visiting (Manipur). He should have gone long before. It is very unfortunate that he has allowed what is happening there to continue for so long and for so many people to be killed. That has not been the tradition of prime ministers in India,” she said.Congress general secretary K C Venugopal also lashed out at the prime minister’s visit, calling it a “belated, face-saving farce.”PM Modi’s Manipur visit today is a display of how sorely lacking in empathy and compassion a leader can be, he claimed.Manipur has been burning since 2023, and he found time to pay a visit today – after 2.5 years, Venugopal said on X.”This visit too is a half-hearted measure, with him spending barely a few hours there, and is clubbed with a visit to Mizoram,” the Congress leader said.He said that the Modi government has neither presented a solution to address the “deep social rift that caused the civil war” nor does it have the “courage to bring warring groups together” and make a genuine attempt at peace.”Instead, he is treating this like any other PR event, treating his grand arrival as an occasion to celebrate.Such a tone deaf, insensitive and self-aggrandising stunt will be nothing but a mockery of the people of Manipur.”As this belated, face-saving farce takes place today, one is left to wonder whether those who peddle hate every single day can ever be messengers of peace,” Venugopal said.Modi reached Manipur on Saturday afternoon on his first visit to the state after ethnic violence broke out in May 2023.He will inaugurate and lay the foundation stones for development projects worth Rs 8,500 crore during the 3-hour-long visit.



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