The 24th Congress of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) expresses serious concern about the developments in Manipur since the eruption of the ethnic violence on May 3, 2023, the imposition of President’s Rule in Manipur on February 13, 2025 and the confirmation of President’s Rule by Parliament on April 4, 2025. This pressing development necessitates immediate attention, collective action, and concrete solutions.
President’s Rule in Manipur underlines the utter bankruptcy of the BJP-led NDA government under whose rule the state has been in violent turmoil for two years. President’s Rule has been imposed not in the interests of Manipur but to buy time to settle the internal conflicts within the ruling party. The Chief Minister, the main culprit, who was backed all along by the BJP-RSS, was eventually forced to resign on February 8, 2025 because his role was being examined by a court where evidence was presented of his sectarian partisan role which left him with no choice but to quit.
In all these developments, the central leadership of the ruling party and the Central Government refused to take the required action to alleviate the deep suffering inflicted on the people of Manipur symbolised by the Prime Minister’s callous refusal to even visit the troubled state. This exposes the sectarian approach of the ruling party and the state and Central Government it heads, which put its own political interests above that of the state and its people. Now the central government cannot escape its responsibility.
The 24th Congress of the CPI(M) urges the Government of India to take immediate and sustained action to heal the deep divisions through dialogue with representatives of different communities, taking all political parties into confidence to arrive at a just solution to bring normalcy, peace and harmony, while protecting the democratic rights of the people of the state, including the holding of all elections from panchayats to assembly within a time framework.