RSS involvement will not resolve Manipur crisis: Congress president Meghachandra

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Manipur Congress president   Keisham Meghachandra Singh. File

Manipur Congress president Keisham Meghachandra Singh. File | Photo Credit: ANI

Manipur Congress president Keisham Meghachandra Singh connected Friday (November 21, 2025) said the engagement of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) volition not lick the situation successful the State, arsenic it requires a government-led governmental solution and confidence-building measures.

Reacting to the three-day circuit of RSS main Mohan Bhagwat, helium said immoderate sojourn that "prioritises strengthening organisational growth" implicit the suffering of the radical sends a incorrect message.

"The Manipur Pradesh Congress Committee takes enactment of the visit of RSS Sarsanghchalak Mohan Bhagwat to Manipur. At a clip erstwhile Manipur is inactive suffering from unprecedented violence, displacement, societal division, and administrative collapse, the radical expected the Central Government to nonstop a factual program for bid and restoration of normalcy," helium said successful a station connected X.

"However, alternatively of addressing the humanitarian situation and the breakdown of governance, the sojourn appears to beryllium focussed chiefly connected strengthening RSS organisational activities successful the State," helium added.

Claiming that RSS engagement volition not lick the crisis, Mr. Singh said the ongoing turmoil requires a government-led governmental solution, administrative accountability, and confidence-building measures. "Strengthening ideological organisations volition not bring peace," helium added.

The Congress person said if the Centre was superior astir solving the taste situation successful the State, it should supply a factual roadmap for peace, a unified bid structure, a program for the harmless instrumentality of displaced families, and accountability for administrative failures.

"MPCC reiterates that the absorption indispensable stay connected restoration of normalcy, extortion of each communities, and justness for victims. Political oregon ideological visits cannot substitute existent governance," helium said.

"Manipur needs healing, not polarisation. Any sojourn that prioritises organisational maturation implicit people’s suffering sends a incorrect connection astatine this captious time," helium added.

Mr. Bhagwat reached Imphal connected Thursday (November 20, 2025), his archetypal sojourn since taste unit broke retired successful the State successful May 2023.

During his stay, Mr. Bhagwat volition clasp a bid of closed-door interactions with RSS members to oversee the functioning of the organisation successful the northeastern State.

He volition besides interact with entrepreneurs, tribal leaders from the Manipur hills, salient citizens and leaders of younker organisations successful the State.

Manipur has been nether the President's Rule since February aft Chief Minister N. Biren Singh, who led a BJP government, resigned amid disapproval of his administration's handling of the taste violence, which has claimed much than 260 lives.

Published - November 21, 2025 12:29 p.m. IST

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