The Ministry of Home Affairs is soon going to hold joint talks with the Kuki-Zo and Meitei groups of Manipur in New Delhi. The talks, which are scheduled for Saturday afternoon, will see the two communities coming together for a peace talk mediated by the centre for the first time in the last two years.
In October 2024, the Home Affairs Ministry, headed by BJP leader Amit Shah, failed to conduct a meeting between the two parties in New Delhi. The Kuki MLAs attended the meeting but refused to sit for a discussion with the Meitei MLAs in the same room.
“We are confident that a joint meeting with both groups will soon be held in New Delhi,” said HM Amit Shah in the early hours of Friday during Rajya Sabha discussion on the statutory resolution on the proclamation of the President’s rule in Manipur.
On 4 April 2025, the Parliament adopted the statutory resolution, which was issued by the President on 13th February of this year under Article 356(1) of the Constitution in relation to the state of Manipur. The Lok Sabha has already approved it.
Political Circus
Amit Shah claimed in the Lok Sabha that 260 people have died in the violence so far in the violence.
“Sporadic violence continued for a decade where 750 people lost their lives. There were Kuki-Paite clashes in 1997-98 when 352 people were killed. In the Meitei-Pangal clashes in the 1990s, over 100 people died. Neither the then prime minister nor the then home minister visited Manipur,” said Shah.
The Home Minister contested that impression has been given that violence in Manipur only erupted during the BJP rule.
Violence in the state of Manipur started in May 2023 and has now become a ground for a political circus.
