Editorial with Sujit Nair: Are we doing enough to heal Manipur? | CBI | Amit Shah | Supreme Court
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In this editorial episode, Mr. Sujit Nair discusses the government's efforts to quell the ongoing unrest in Manipur and raises pertinent questions for achieving lasting peace in the region. The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has transferred the case regarding the viral video of women being paraded naked in Manipur to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), affirming its ""zero tolerance"" towards crimes against women. The Centre has requested the Supreme Court to relocate the case outside Manipur and aims to see the trial conclude within six months of the CBI filing the charge sheet.
Additionally, the Centre has initiated talks with the Meitei and Kuki communities, acknowledging a deep mistrust between them, and is actively working to bridge the gap. To provide support to the victims, the Manipur government has established ""district psychological support teams"" at various relief camps, which include an all-women team of medical specialists. The Centre is also offering legal aid through the District Legal Services Authority for the victims. To prevent such incidents from recurring, it is now mandatory for police station in-charges to report all cases to the Director General of Police (DGP), with investigations monitored by an SP-rank officer under the DGP's supervision.
Furthermore, the affidavit states that suitable rewards will be given for reporting such incidents and providing information leading to the arrest of the culprits. The Supreme Court bench will hear petitions related to the Manipur violence on Friday.
#Manipur #CBI #AmitShah #SupremeCourt #MEITEI #KUKI #SujitNair #ManipurUnrest #PMModi #HWNews #BJP #NBirenSingh
https://linktr.ee/sujitnair
In this editorial episode, Mr. Sujit Nair discusses the government's efforts to quell the ongoing unrest in Manipur and raises pertinent questions for achieving lasting peace in the region. The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has transferred the case regarding the viral video of women being paraded naked in Manipur to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), affirming its ""zero tolerance"" towards crimes against women. The Centre has requested the Supreme Court to relocate the case outside Manipur and aims to see the trial conclude within six months of the CBI filing the charge sheet.
Additionally, the Centre has initiated talks with the Meitei and Kuki communities, acknowledging a deep mistrust between them, and is actively working to bridge the gap. To provide support to the victims, the Manipur government has established ""district psychological support teams"" at various relief camps, which include an all-women team of medical specialists. The Centre is also offering legal aid through the District Legal Services Authority for the victims. To prevent such incidents from recurring, it is now mandatory for police station in-charges to report all cases to the Director General of Police (DGP), with investigations monitored by an SP-rank officer under the DGP's supervision.
Furthermore, the affidavit states that suitable rewards will be given for reporting such incidents and providing information leading to the arrest of the culprits. The Supreme Court bench will hear petitions related to the Manipur violence on Friday.
#Manipur #CBI #AmitShah #SupremeCourt #MEITEI #KUKI #SujitNair #ManipurUnrest #PMModi #HWNews #BJP #NBirenSingh
Transcript
00:00 Namaskar.
00:01 Welcome to another episode of Editorial.
00:04 Today the government took a lot of steps regarding Manipur.
00:09 Number one is that the case where the women were paraded naked in Manipur, that case has
00:18 been transferred to the Central Bureau of Investigation.
00:21 The 4th of May case in Taobal district has been transferred to the Central Bureau of
00:24 Investigation.
00:25 Number two, the Central Government, that is the Ministry of Home Affairs has moved Supreme
00:32 Court requesting the court to move the case away from Manipur High Court to another state,
00:38 possibly Assam High Court.
00:40 That's point number two.
00:41 Point number three, it has given us a few details which I will get to.
00:46 My question is, are we solving the problem or are we resolving the symptoms?
00:56 Are we really looking at the core problem and trying to solve it?
01:00 Or are we purely looking at symptoms which have been picked up by media, which became
01:05 viral and therefore just sorting it out and brushing things under the carpet?
01:09 What are we trying to do?
01:11 Let's discuss this.
01:12 Let's get right into the show.
01:13 Now, the Central Government has taken a few decisions regarding Manipur and I am going
01:22 to read out those decisions to you.
01:25 First and foremost is like I said, the Home Ministry has moved the Supreme Court to request,
01:30 to pray to the Supreme Court that the Taobal case, the May 4th case removed from Manipur
01:36 and given to some other state.
01:38 That's the first thing they have requested.
01:40 Ideally, I think it will go to Assam.
01:42 That is what they say.
01:43 That is the first thing they have requested.
01:45 The second thing that they have done is they have taken away six cases from the police.
01:51 In fact, seven cases from the police and given to the CBI.
01:57 Three cases have been handed over to NIA.
02:00 Around 6065 FIRs have been filed by the state police.
02:05 According to the government sources, 72 percent of government employees returned to work,
02:11 82 percent of children are back to school.
02:15 The Centre will move to Supreme Court for Schedulka status for Maithi.
02:21 And according to the Centre, neither the army nor the police were present during the May
02:28 4th case in Taobal district.
02:31 This is what we understand from the Central Government said yesterday.
02:35 In fact, there are psychologists, special investigation officers appointed for Central
02:40 to help people, help people who face mental trauma.
02:44 So there are psychologists also that they have appointed.
02:49 Now all this looks good.
02:54 Let us understand, let us understand this threadware.
02:58 All these steps happened because of a viral video that the entire country, that saw outrage
03:08 in this entire country from Kashmir to Kanyakumari because of one viral video.
03:15 The question I ask tonight is if that viral video wouldn't have happened, would all these
03:19 steps be taken or would it let, would we just let it simmer?
03:24 That's the question number one I ask and I ask you this question for two reasons.
03:29 A is, what I see here is a lot of action taken on symptoms.
03:37 I don't think there is any major action taken on the core issue.
03:43 The core issue of what happens to the CM, why was the CM inactive?
03:51 That is the core issue.
03:52 We need to investigate that, which body is investigating that?
03:57 Why did the police not act?
03:59 Why was there inaction from the police?
04:02 According to a police officer, I spoke in three days, they could have sorted out this
04:06 matter.
04:07 Why was this matter not sorted out in three days?
04:10 I don't see any investigating, investigation on that issue.
04:15 I don't see any investigation on that issue.
04:18 What stopped the administration from acting?
04:20 That is one of the most important investigation that we should be doing.
04:23 I don't see that investigation happening.
04:26 What happens to the war on drugs?
04:29 What happens to the war on drugs?
04:31 How are we going to continue the war on drugs?
04:34 Continue that path, ensuring that it's not the cookies that you blame.
04:40 There are dealers, there are distributors, there are salespeople, there are politicians,
04:44 the whole cartel involved in the drugs.
04:46 How are you going to ensure that the war on drugs continue and war on drugs continue fairly
04:50 without purely blaming the cookies for it?
04:53 How is that going to happen?
04:55 What is the roadmap for that?
04:56 That's a question I want to ask.
04:59 What happens to forest reserves?
05:01 How are you going to ensure that you reserve your forest the way you want it, environment
05:06 is important, but other than harming just one community?
05:11 Having rehabilitation plan for that community when you are throwing that community out of
05:14 the forest, how are you going to do that?
05:19 Is there a roadmap for that?
05:20 Is there a plan for that?
05:21 I want to know.
05:22 How are we going to ensure that the mountain, the hill range of Manipur, there are infrastructures,
05:28 there are basic infrastructures, hospitals, schools, water, basic infrastructure, other
05:34 than focusing that all, other than ensuring all infrastructures are in Impal.
05:39 How do we ensure that we extend the infrastructure to the rest of Manipur so that the cookie
05:43 feels that they too are taken care of or Nagas too feel that they are taken care of?
05:48 Anyone, why Nagas and cookies, people who are staying in the hills are seen that they
05:52 are taken care of, feels that they are taken care of, other than having all the infrastructure
05:57 concentrated on the plateau that is Impal.
06:01 So when are we going to do that?
06:03 What's our roadmap for that?
06:06 What's our roadmap to bridge the economic wedge that is there between the hill tribe
06:12 and the people staying in the plain?
06:15 How are we going to wedge that economic gap so that there is the core of any problem,
06:23 the core of any problem, not only in Manipur, not only in India, across the globe, every
06:28 place, every nook and corner in the world, the core of any problem is economic wedge.
06:34 How are we going to ensure that that economic wedge is taken care of between the people
06:38 staying in the hills and people staying in the plain?
06:41 People staying in the plain are economically much better well to do than people staying
06:45 in the hills.
06:46 How are we going to take care of that?
06:48 There should be a panel sitting to discuss that.
06:52 Where is that panel?
06:53 I don't see that.
06:57 The government is proposing to hold talks with both the communities to bridge the mutual
07:03 distrust.
07:04 Fantastic.
07:05 That's what the center says.
07:06 Fantastic.
07:07 But I think, and this I tell my fellow Indians, the cookies and the methis in Manipur, don't
07:16 wait for the government to build that bridge.
07:18 You guys can build that bridge far more easier than the government interfering and making
07:22 and bridging those bridges.
07:26 I spoke to methis, I spoke to cookies, I spoke to some administrative officers, I spoke to
07:30 a lot of people in Manipur.
07:32 And the fact is, this issue can be easily resolved if there is people to people interaction.
07:40 There is no that much of hatred, actually.
07:44 Common people, there is no that much of hatred.
07:46 Few pockets, few fringe elements, maybe.
07:49 But common people, there is no that much of hatred for each other.
07:53 Like I was told, they are married to each other.
07:55 They have got relatives in, cookies have got married to methis, methis have got married
08:00 to cookies.
08:02 There is a bond.
08:03 There is no much wedge.
08:07 It's a matter of people to people meeting, other than involving politicians, other than
08:12 involving community leaders.
08:14 If people to people meet, this bridge can be, the bridge can be built between both these
08:20 communities.
08:21 That is a fact.
08:25 But the point remains that most of the steps that I see, I saw here, are steps that are
08:32 taken purely, purely as a knee jerk reaction.
08:37 Most of them are knee jerk reaction for that video, because that video came out and this
08:42 outrage happened and entire India is talking about it.
08:45 And most of these, most of these decisions are based on that.
08:48 Law and order decisions, of course, they woke up now and now they are trying to get everything
08:54 into place.
08:55 All that is fine.
08:57 But the fact is, Manipur needs permanent decisions.
09:01 Manipur needs permanent solutions.
09:04 And more than the government, I think permanent solutions can come if both the communities
09:08 on their own, people to people come, sit together and sort it out.
09:13 Mind you, the most permanent decisions that have ever been taken are taken by people and
09:18 not by governments.
09:19 When people take decisions, when people sit with each other, when people communicate with
09:24 each other, the decisions that comes through are 100 percent permanent.
09:29 That is what I would request people from Manipur to do.
09:32 This is a problem that you can resolve.
09:34 That said, most of the solutions that have been suggested, I think are good, but addressing
09:43 the symptoms and not the core problems.
09:45 Till I see you next time.
09:47 Namaskar.
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