Tag: Kuki tribe

Forget about 79 days, for such a scale of violence, even a week (of delay in response) is a long time, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA from Manipur Paolienlal Haokip said criticising Prime Minister Narendra Modi's press statement on the ethnic violence in the northeastern state after a ‘deafening silence’. As a representative of the Kuki-Zomi community in the state, the BJP MLA believes PM Modi's priorities are ‘entirely misplaced’, as he recalled his unsuccessful attempt to reach the Prime Minister before he left for the US State visit. In an interview with Newslaundry, Haokip said, without discounting the importance of international relations (as a part of the PM's US visit), it is a ‘modicum of humanity’ to pay attention to resolve the matter where people are getting killed, which i...