February 14, 2025
Press Statement
The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued
the following statement:
President’s Rule Underlines Bankruptcy of Double Engine Government
The imposition of President’s Rule in Manipur underlines the utter
bankruptcy of the BJP double engine government under whose rule the
state has been in violent turmoil for two years. President’s Rule has
been imposed not in the interests of Manipur but to buy time to settle
the internal conflicts within the ruling coalition. The Chief Minister,
the main culprit, who was backed all along by the BJP-RSS was forced to
resign because his partisan role was being examined by a court where
evidence was presented of his sectarian partisan role which left him
with no choice but to quit.
In all these developments, the central leadership of the ruling party
and the central government refused to take the required action to
alleviate the deep suffering inflicted on the people of Manipur
symbolised by the Prime Minister’s callous refusal to even visit the
troubled state. This exposes the sectarian approach of the ruling party
and the state and central government it heads, which put its own
political interests above that of the state and its people.
President’s Rule is no solution. However, now the central government
cannot escape its responsibility. It must immediately initiate measures
to heal the deep divisions through negotiations with representatives of
different communities, taking all political parties into confidence to
arrive at just solutions to bring normalcy, peace and harmony while
protecting the democratic rights of the people of the state, including
the holding of elections within a time framework.