Delhi: Amid the escalating ethnic violence in Manipur, Congress President and Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge on Tuesday wrote a letter to President Droupadi Murmu, urging her to 'immediately intervene to ensure the protection of lives and properties of our own citizens in the the Northeast state'.
In the letter, he said that people have lost their faith in the Centre and the State governments.
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"It has become constitutionally imperative for the President to uphold the constitutional propriety and immediately intervene to ensure the protection of lives and properties of our own citizens in Manipur," the letter read.
"I am confident that, through your intervention of your esteemed office, the people of Manipur will again live peacefully in their homes in security with dignity," the Congress chief said in his letter, adding: "Both the Union Government and the State Government of Manipur have completely failed in restoring peace and normalcy in Manipur during the last 18 months."
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'People lost confidence in both govts'
"The people of the state have apparently lost confidence in both the governments and reasonably so. With every passing day, the people of Manipur are becoming insecure on their own soil, their home turf having witnessed their infants, babies, children and women getting mercilessly killed," he further added.
