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‘Centre compromising national security, territorial integrity: Cong over conflict in NE states
The responsibility lies at the door of PM Modi and Amit Shah, Congress spokesperson Randeep Surjewaala said.
In the wake of violence erupting in several northeastern states, Congress on Wednesday accused the Centre of compromising the national security and territorial integrity of the country and asked why is the government not taking an action to stabilize the situation.
“The entire northeast is in chaos. There is a complete breakdown of law and order and constitutional machinery in multiple states. Prime Minister and Home Minister are guilty of criminal culpability by compromising internal security and India’s territorial integrity,” said Congress spokesperson Randeep Surjewaala in a press conference.
The responsibility lies at the door of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah, he added.
The Congress spokesperson was referring to the Mizo-Assam conflict, the extreme militancy that emerged in Shillong after the killing of former militant Chesterfield Thangkhiew, the centre’s failure to convert the Framework Agreement signed six years ago on August 3 to a final settlement and China’s invasion into Arunachal Pradesh earlier this year.
Surjewaala said that the Modi government is “oblivious” to the violence brimming in the 5 of the seven northeastern states. It said, “This wholly indifferent, criminally aloof, hands-off approach of the Modi government emanates often from its illegal and divisive user-patients of power in many states of northeast adding a blind lust to illegitimately latch onto that power without thinking of the consequences for the country.”
After the militant uprising on August 15, fresh violence broke out in Shillong on Tuesday when an unidentified individual attacked the carcade of Governor Satya Pal Malik with stones on its return from Assam after dropping him at an airport there.
Earlier this year, media had reported that China had built a new village, consisting of 101 homes, in Arunachal Pradesh, about 4.5 km “within Indian territory of the de facto border”, on the banks of Tsari Chu river in Upper Subansiri district, an area along the Line of Actual Control (LAC). This was the same area where five people were detained by Chinese troops last September.
In response, China had said construction of the village in Arunachal Pradesh was “beyond reproach” because it had “never recognised” Arunachal as a part of India.
