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NEW DELHI, 9 Dec:<\/strong> The INDIA bloc parties from Manipur on Monday held a protest here, demanding that Prime Minister Narendra Modi visit the violence-hit state and Home Minister Amit Shah resign on “moral grounds.”<\/p>\n The parties that have also been pressing for Chief Minister N Biren Singh’s sacking held the demonstration at Jantar Mantar “for an immediate restoration of peace and normalcy” in Manipur which, they said, has been “burning for the last 19 months.”<\/p>\n Several opposition leaders, including Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh, Congress’ deputy leader in Lok Sabha Gaurav Gogoi and CPI general secretary D Raja, participated in the protest.<\/p>\n “The state has been inflicted with unprecedented turmoil, continuous curfew, internet ban, high price rise of all commodities, unavailability of medicines, continuous violence, highways blockade, rising extortion, all form<\/p>\n \u00a0of violent threats and disturbances, complete lawlessness and chaos,” Ramesh alleged in a post on X.<\/p>\n He said there has been a “complete violation” of the right to life and property.<\/p>\n There is total obstruction to the smooth functioning of schools, colleges, universities, and professional institutions, he lamented.<\/p>\n Ramesh said that the INDIA Bloc, Manipur, resolved to press for their demands to President Droupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.<\/p>\n Their demands include that the PM urgently visit Manipur for immediate restoration of peace and normalcy in the state without affecting the territorial integrity of Manipur, he said.<\/p>\n \u00a0INDIA bloc parties from Manipur had on Friday urged Prime Minister Modi to visit the violence-hit state at the earliest, asserting that his direct involvement and proactive engagement with the people of Manipur can only bring peace and normalcy there.<\/p>\n A delegation of leaders from 10 political parties, representing the INDIA bloc, held a press conference here and claimed that they were denied permission to hold a sit-in at Jantar Mantar.<\/p>\n The Congress and other opposition parties have been attacking the prime minister for not visiting Manipur, besides slamming the Centre for its handling of the situation in the ethnic strife-torn northeastern state.(PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NEW DELHI, 9 Dec: The INDIA bloc parties from Manipur on Monday held a protest here, demanding that Prime Minister Narendra Modi visit the violence-hit state and Home Minister Amit Shah resign on “moral grounds.” The parties that have also been pressing for Chief Minister N Biren Singh’s sacking held the demonstration at Jantar Mantar […]<\/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-253611","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\/253611","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=253611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}