The Centre is doing everything possible to restore normalcy in strife-torn Manipur, Union Home Minister Amit Shah has emphasized.
“We are talking to the Kuki and Meitei groups. We have prepared a roadmap to take different initiatives for the situation in Manipur,” he said, adding that fencing the country’s border with Myanmar is also being done to check infiltration from the neighboring country.
The central government in February this year had announced that the entire 1,643-km-long border with Myanmar would be fenced.
The overall situation in Manipur has improved, and barring three days of violence last week, the state has been calm, minister said.
“There was peace in the last three days and I am hopeful that we will be able to control the situation. We are holding talks with both communities. It was ethnic violence and unless there is dialogue between the two communities, no solution could be found,” the Home Minister was quoted was as saying in the reports.
The reports say that Centre’s representatives have been holding meetings with legislators from both Meitei and Kuki communities.
Manipur has witnessed deadly clashes between Meitei and Kuki communities since May last year. The violence so far has claimed at least 230 lives and uprooted around 50,000 people, number of whom are still residing in relief centres.