Manipur is in turmoil. The uprising there is not a matter of localised incidents but if we do a proper analysis these incidents are the results of mainly three main aspects. First what we need to understand is the systematic influx of homeless people from Myanmar for the last many decades.

Needless to say, the Manipur boiling point has resulted due to a huge number of illegal people who have occupied the hills districts adjoining Myanmar. It is now that this dangerous influx getting the attention of the Government as things are going out of hand. There are now available data that a large chunk of people have got themselves easy access to PAN cards, AADHAR cards, and Voter ID cards that the government needs to introspect and investigate.

The second aspect is the operations of international drug dealers whose business turnover is in thousands of crores per month. India is one of the biggest markets for these international drug cartels and they have found an easy route in the porous international border being kept almost open by the Government of India. The drug routes are exploited by the drug cartel who have penetrated the Manipur hill villages and controlled the area through their money and gun power. The guns are sponsored by many terror groups operating in the hills of Manipur. Here also sadly Government of India did not crush the militants but has gone into a Suspension of Operations (SoO). 

The question arises why India Government has to go into a negotiation with militants in the NorthEastern parts of the country. Will the Government of India negotiate with terrorists in Jammu & Kashmir? Is it Northeast India that comes into the last priority of the Government and thus all the negotiations?

These negotiations with militants group give rise to other groups funded from across the border and so the government is ultimately not able to stop the growth of terror groups and thus development remains the backbencher. people are not empowered and people think that the government has not done enough and resort to taking up weapons.

The third aspect is the political and religious aspects of the region. Political parties further their vote bank compromises on the indigenous people and encourage illegal migrants to settle in order to create their vote bank. The hill politics is based on the headman giving diktat and people’s voice is muted. So the hill is under the diktat of the insurgent group and accordingly, political representatives are elected on the basis of the gun-totting drug cartels.

The penetration of churches and their cover in the hills has legitimised a form of civilisation that can think and act in only one unified direction and people are not allowed to have any second opinions. The sudden growth of the number of churches has also changed the religious demography of the region and is a matter of concern as the people they serve are illegally getting settled in the region without any valid lineage or history. 

So when the politician and religious institutes serve some group of people whose antecedence are in question and covered by both blood and drug money it is natural that many questions arise.

So it is for the Government of India to introspect whether their Eastern border is being invaded or not and convince the people of India that proper corrective steps are being undertaken. As of now, there are no other solutions visible but military actions because it is now a clear case of invasion from outside, an invasion of drugs, people, and terror groups…