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NEW DELHI, 29 Apr:<\/strong> Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Saturday blamed the BJP for the violence in Manipur and accused the ruling party of “bulldozing” the rights of indigenous communities.<\/p>\n “The situation in BJP-ruled Manipur is disturbing. Violence is no solution to any issue. Law and order has been completely derailed in the state under the double-engine government,” Kharge said on Twitter.<\/p>\n “The BJP is hell-bent to trample and bulldoze the rights of vulnerable indigenous communities. We strongly condemn it,” the Congress chief said.<\/p>\n Fresh clashes erupted between demonstrators and police personnel in Churachandpur town on Friday night, with security forces using batons, teargas and rubber bullets to disperse the mob.<\/p>\n Locals claimed that some people were killed and many injured in the police action, hours after a bandh called by Indigenous Tribal Leaders Forum concluded.<\/p>\n However, there was no official confirmation on casualties or injuries to people.<\/p>\n Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh said, “The real face of the BJP now visible in Manipur.”<\/p>\n “While the entire Team Modi is fixated on Karnataka, Churachandpur in Manipur has turned into almost a war zone only a year after the BJP got a decisive majority in the state. The double engine there is blowing up,” Ramesh said on Twitter, alleging that the union government is not bothered about it.<\/p>\n The situation in Churachandpur remained grim as unidentified miscreants set afire a government building, even as night curfew was imposed in the district from Saturday, officials said.<\/p>\n A group of people torched the office of the range forest officer in Tuibong area around midnight and several fire tenders were pressed into service to douse the flames, they said.<\/p>\n Public properties worth lakhs of rupees were reportedly destroyed and official documents burnt in the blaze, a police officer said.<\/p>\n Night curfew has been imposed in the district from 5 pm to 5 am from Saturday until further orders, according to an official notification. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NEW DELHI, 29 Apr: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Saturday blamed the BJP for the violence in Manipur and accused the ruling party of “bulldozing” the rights of indigenous communities. “The situation in BJP-ruled Manipur is disturbing. Violence is no solution to any issue. Law and order has been completely derailed in the state under […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-215477","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}