"Stop adding fuel to the Manipur issue." After often being questioned about his "silence" over Manipur violence, here's how PM Modi took up the issue in Rajya Sabha…
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00:00In Manipur, the number of incidents of violence is decreasing.
00:06In most parts of Manipur,
00:10schools, colleges, offices and other institutions are running like normal days.
00:19Whatever elements are trying to burn Manipur,
00:25I urge them to stop this.
00:31One day, Manipur will reject such people.
00:55To normalize Manipur's situation, the government is continuously trying to do so.
01:23More than 11,000 FIRs have been filed against Manipur.
01:32Manipur is a small state.
01:34More than 11,000 FIRs have been filed against Manipur.
01:37More than 500 people have been arrested.
01:42We have to accept that the number of incidents of violence is decreasing in Manipur.
01:57This means that it is possible to hope for peace.
02:09In most parts of Manipur,
02:14schools, colleges, offices and other institutions are running like normal days.
02:25In Manipur, schools, colleges, offices and other institutions are running like normal days.
02:38The government is continuously trying to find a peaceful solution.
02:53This has never happened before.
02:55The Home Minister has been in Manipur for a long time.
03:00But all the senior officials of the government,
03:03who are involved in these issues,
03:05are physically going there.
03:08Now, there is a flood in Manipur.
03:12The central government is cooperating with the state government.
03:22All of us, who are above politics,
03:27should help the state government to make things normal.
03:32This is our duty.
03:34All the people who are trying to put Manipur under fire,
03:40I urge them to stop this.
03:45One day, Manipur will reject them.
03:51People of Congress should not forget that
03:54in Manipur,
03:56because of these reasons,
03:58the President has been forced to run for 10 times.
04:02In such a small state,
04:04the President has been forced to run for 10 times.
04:09There must be some problems.
04:11This has not happened in our country.
04:14But still,
04:16to take advantage of politics,
04:18the kind of things that are happening there,
04:21I would like to tell the people of the country,
04:24in 1993,
04:26similar incidents were going on in Manipur.
04:31And it was going on so fast.
04:34It was so widespread.
04:36It was going on for 5 years in a row.
04:40Understanding all this history,
04:45we have to try to improve the situation.
04:52We want to cooperate with everyone.
04:57But we are trying our best to keep the situation normal.