West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday mentioned efforts are underway to evacuate individuals of the state stranded in violence-hit Manipur. Expressing concern over the violent clashes within the northeastern state, which have claimed the lives of 54 individuals, Banerjee urged Chief Secretary H Okay Dwivedi to watch the state of affairs and make efforts to evacuate the stranded individuals. “Deeply anguished by the kind of messages and SOS we are receiving from Manipur. I am concerned about the safety of the people of Manipur and others hailing from different parts of the country, now stranded there,” she tweeted. “Govt of Bengal is committed to stand by the people and has decided to make every effort to evacuate people stranded there in coordination with the government of Manipur. The chief secretary has been directed to monitor the entire process, to help people in distress and despair. We are with the people at all times. Urge everyone to maintain peace,” she added.
Banerjee additionally supplied helpline numbers for these searching for help. The whole variety of individuals from West Bengal stranded in Manipur isn’t at present out there. The dying toll within the ethnic violence which has engulfed Manipur elevated to 54, officers mentioned whilst unofficial sources positioned the determine at a number of scores useless and greater than 150 injured. Meanwhile, life limped again to a cautious normalcy in Imphal Valley as outlets and markets reopened and vehicles began plying the roads. Violence first erupted in Torbung space in Churachandpur district of Manipur throughout the ‘Tribal Solidarity March’ organised by the All Tribal Student Union Manipur (ATSUM) on May 3 to protest the demand of Meiteis for Scheduled Tribe (ST) standing.
The march was organised by tribals — together with Nagas and Kukis — after the Manipur High Court requested the state authorities final month to ship a suggestion to the Centre inside 4 weeks on the demand for ST standing by the Meitei neighborhood. During the march in Torbung, an armed mob allegedly attacked individuals of the Meitei neighborhood, resulting in retaliatory assaults within the valley districts, which escalated the violence all through the state, police mentioned. Multiple sources mentioned the preventing between communities had left a number of scores of individuals useless and practically 100 injured. However, the police had been unwilling to verify this. Meiteis account for about 53 per cent of the inhabitants and stay largely within the Imphal Valley. Tribals, who embrace Nagas and Kukis, account for one more 40 per cent of the inhabitants and stay largely within the hill districts which encompass the valley.
