Rajya Sabha Passes Resolution, Extends Presidents Rule in Manipur For Six More Months

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The resolution was passed amid continuous sloganeering and protests by Opposition MPs against the SIR in Bihar.
New Delhi: The Parliament on Tuesday (August 5) passed a statutory resolution to extend the President's Rule in Manipur for another six months with effect from August 13.
The resolution, passed by the Lok Sabha last week, was approved by the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday amid uproar by opposition members over the issue of special intensive revision (SIR) in Bihar.
News agency PTI reported that as Opposition MPs raised slogans and continued their protests, deputy chairman Harivansh said it was a 'constitutional obligation' to pass the resolution.
'It's a statutory resolution. All of us, as MPs, have to follow constitutional provisions. These have a time limit within which it has to be disposed of…' he said and asked YSRCP member Subhash Chandra Bose Pilli to speak on the resolution.
Meanwhile, BJD MP Muzibulla Khan pointed towards the situation in Odisha and said, 'When Manipur law and order situation was bad, Article 356 was imposed. Today, the situation of law and order in Odisha is bad… Double engine government in Manipur failed…. Has the situation improved after so many months of President's Rule or not?'
'The Centre should take responsibility, removing an elected government and imposing President's Rule repeatedly is also not good,' he said.
Minister of state for home affairs Nityanand Rai, who moved the resolution for passage of President's Rule, said a rift had formed between two communities in Manipur due to a high court order. 'Those who say it is religious violence are wrong,' he said.
Rai also said that home minister Amit Shah had undertaken a tour of violence-affected areas in Manipur and met high level officials, security forces, civil society members.
He claimed that the Northeast has witnessed widespread development under the Narendra Modi-led government and that since the President's Rule was imposed in Manipur, only one incident of violence has been reported.
Earlier in Lok Sabha, Rai made the same claims, noting that there was a need to extend President's Rule since there has been peace since it was imposed.
As opposed to Rai's claim, that President's Rule has brought peace to the conflict-torn state, violence and curfews still continue in Manipur.
Meanwhile, Rajya Sabha approved the resolution with a voice vote.
The President's Rule was imposed in February when N. Biren Singh stepped down as chief minister. However, it was only in April when after two back-to-back midnight sessions that parliament passed the statutory resolution on the proclamation of Union government rule in Manipur.
The ethnic conflict in Manipur between the valley-based Meitei community and the hills-based Kuki-Zo group of communities has been underway for more than two years. This article went live on August sixth, two thousand twenty five, at twenty-three minutes past six in the evening.
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