Stoking hatred: Manipur on Mizo CM ‘liability’ barb

The Manipur Government has hit back at Mizoram Chief Minister Lalduhoma over his “unwarranted” remarks against CM Biren Singh, saying he was stoking fire of “hatred and division”. Lalduhoma, in an interview yesterday, had called Biren Singh a “liability” for the state, people and the BJP.

The Manipur government, in a statement late last evening, asked Lalduhoma to display “better statesmanship” by being a “good neighbour”.

It further said India must be wary of the “greater agenda of carving a Kuki-Chin Christian nation” out of contiguous areas of Myanmar, India and Bangladesh. Manipur would not allow fragmentation of the North-East at the behest of foreign vested interests, or “secessionist interests as openly espoused by the Mizoram CM”, it said.

The statement said the greater agenda of carving a Kuki-Chin Christian nation had “played out over decades of meticulous planning, through illegal immigration, land grab, displacement of original indigenous peoples, formation of Kuki-Chin dominated districts, establishment of Autonomous District Councils, upgrade of such Councils to Scheduled Areas, amalgamation of Kuki-Chin areas and finally nationhood”. India must also be wary of any attempt to “push” illegal Kuki-Chin immigrants from Mizoram to Manipur for creation of “Greater Mizoram” as part of this process, it said.