Manipur MP fumes as security forces prevent him from visiting blast site

Manipur Congress MP Dr Angomba Bimol Akoijam was on Tuesday was denied access to the village at Bishnupur-Churachandpur inter-district border where multiple blasts were set off on Monday morning.
Furious over denial of entry by the security forces, the MP remarked “This is where the border of India begins, India with Kuki… I cannot go to this side because this is the India-Kuki border.”
The Lok Sabha from Manipur on Tuesday visited Nganukhong, the village struck by IED blasts on early Monday that injured two innocent civilians near an abandoned Meitei home along the inter-district border.
He was, however, stopped by the Central security forces from accessing the village which lies at the sensitive zone of the ongoing Meitei-Kuki conflict.
“At the illegal buffer zone in this village, the MP was stopped by Central forces from proceeding further,” the office of the MP said in a release.
“This is where the border of India begins, India with Kuki… I cannot go to this side because this is India-Kuki border,” the release quoted the MP’s remark on location.
It underscored the unconstitutional division turning Manipur into a fortified divide, the release alleged.
The MP alleged Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union home minister Amit Shah were directly accountable.
“Mr. Amit Shah, you must understand this… Modi ji should also understand… You’re dividing my own home state by putting up this illegal buffer zone,” the MP asserted, adding that with forces under President’s Rule blocking even Parliament members, a travesty absent in other Indian riot zones.
Notably, this is not the first time the MP was prevented from visiting the fringe and vulnerable areas of the ongoing more than two and a half year old violent crisis.
There were earlier instances of the MP confronting the Central security forces from not allowing him entry into violent-affected Meitei villages too.