Comrade Provash Ghosh, General Secretary, SUCI(C), issued the following statement on 16-11-24: Latest violent ethnic clash which has erupted in Jiribam district of Manipur has taken many lives, inflicted grievous injuries to many more, consigned villages after villages to flames and displaced hundreds from their home and hearth. Such ghastly ethnic strife has been smouldering the state of Manipur for over 17 months. The BJP is alleged to have been pulling the strings from behind to pit one section of the people against another, and in fact, has become a partisan force in the conflict. Clearly, its objective is to buttress its heinous agenda of precipitating divide among the toiling masses so as to thwart surge of a united people's movement against growing oppression and suppression as well as to grab the hilly terrains for selling to the corporate sharks for mining and other commercial activities following amendment of the rule to pave way for sale of tribal land to non-tribals. In fact, both the BJP-ruled central and state governments as indulgent onlookers are virtually allowing the situation to drift from worse to worst. We demand that the governments, both central and state, take urgent stringent and effective steps to quell this fratricidal bloodbath which has already caused immense harm in terms of death, destruction and eviction of innocent unarmed Indian citizens belonging to both the hostile communities and call upon common peace-loving masses of both the warring Meites and Kukis, not to fall prey to sinister capitalist conspiracy orchestrated through the arch chauvinists, bury the hatchet forthwith and restore peace, amity and fraternity among all the brethren living in Manipur.