Imphal : The Imphal city looks deserted with curfew being clamped and shortened on and off, no internet services, schools and colleges being shut, travellers coming from outside have almost reduced, the only 4 star hotel of Imphal shut and violence in the foothills continuing between Kuki militants and Maitei villagers.

On May 24 one person succumbed to injuries who was shot in the crossfire in Bishnupur district adjoining Churachandpur the epicentre of trouble that began on May 3 with a Peace Rally going violent.

Now with the demand for separate administration no less than a union territory by the 10 Kuki MLAs which the Govt of India has reportedly declined to change the integrity of Manipur land, the state is in seize.

The Maitei villagers who had fled to Imphal valley are stationed in relief camps in Imphal.

These people were evacuated by civil organisation volunteers of Maitei Leepun, civil administration and security forces but now the peripheral villages adjoining Churachandpur, Kangpokpi district are under attack and fear.

Womens folks are coming out and voicing their anger stating security forces are not doing enough to protect innocent villagers who are being attacked by Kuki miscreants with sophisticated weapons and people of these villages are demanding guns for themselves to protect their lives and property.

Huge numbers of security personnel are being airlifted to Manipur with frequent defence aircraft flying late at night also.

People are voicing against their local representatives and demanding that it is time for 50 MLAs to speak up now.

The state government which was contemplating a population survey in the format of NRC and eviction of people from reserve forest to identify any illegal migrants have yet to take any shape. People are demanding that it was 1949 that Manipur merged with India and 1951 census should be the base for the citizen record issue that has pushed the state of Manipur into turmoil.

People’s concern is also on the role of centre and what reconciliation and retaliation action it would undertake to flush out any militant group that has taken the state into a seize.

People in general cannot believe that communities will bifurcate in the extent happened this time. In Manipur different communities co-existed and a peaceful settlement is what is the need of the hour without dividing people and land echoes everyone.

Last fifteen to twenty years of hard work towards development and peace seems to slip away in a span of days and people are awakening to the realisation that a deep rooted, planned conspiracy is hatched upon the state of Manipur.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah is scheduled to visit Manipur for three days from 29th May and it is to be seen what process of reconciliation and steps he takes to bring an elected Government back to its form.