BJP converted opportunity into formality: Congress on one-day Manipur session

The Congress on Tuesday termed farce the oneday Manipur Assembly session saying had the House sat for a few more days fissures within the BJP would have come out in full displayIn a post on X Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh said the BJP as always has converted an opportunity into a formalityThe oneday session of the Manipur Assembly was adjourned sine die within an hour of commencement after Congress MLAs created an uproar demanding the session be extended to five days Opposition MLAs led by former chief minister Okram Ibobi Singh said one day was not enough to discuss the prevailing situation in the strifetorn stateAll the 10 Kuki MLAs including the seven from the BJP were also absent from the HouseRamesh said Today the Manipur Assembly met for the first time since March 3rd 2023 It stood in 2minute silence in memory of those killed in the state since May 3rd The CM read out a resolution and thereafter it got adjourned indefinitely disallowing any other resolutionsAlso read Missing woman found murdered in HyderabadThe entire proceedings took much less than an hour he saidWhat a farce There was simply no reason why with its huge majority the ruling party could not have had the session for a few days at the very least The reason is simple if the Assembly Session had functioned the differences and fissures within the BJP would have come into full display and that too on the floor of the Assembly Ramesh saidFurther the fact that all 10 Kuki MLAs boycotted the session shows the deep divide in the state and how Chief Minister N Biren Singh is unfit to take forward the peace process Ramesh saidThe state government had last month recommended a session by August 21 but later revised it to August 28 after not getting a green light from the Raj Bhavan Last week the chief ministers office announced the assembly will reconvene on August 29The previous assembly session was held in March and according to the norms a session must be held every six monthsOn Saturday Ibobi Singh said the session was an eyewash and not in the public interestMore than 160 people lost their lives and several hundreds were injured since ethnic clashes broke out in Manipur on May 3This story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever