Pressure mounting for Manipur CM Removal
BJP High Command disinclined
Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh may be under intense pressure to quit particularly after the Supreme Court's strong comments, the BJP high command seems reluctant to sacrifice him, at least for now.
Though the ruling BJP did buckle under pressure by expressing its readiness to discuss the Manipur situation in Parliament and the PM also expressed his “pain and anguish”. But there is no likelihood of the BJP high command agreeing to remove the Chief Minister despite wide-spread outrage not only in India but abroad as well after video of two Kukies women being paraded naked went viral. The Chief Justice of India, D Y Chandrachud also stepped in saying either bring the perpetrators to book or “step aside for the judiciary to take action.
A senior BJP office bearer said the current party leadership is unlikely to remove a sitting Chief Minister for failure to handle law & order situation. He said that the current crisis emerged after a court ruling giving ST status to a particular community. There was complete peace and harmony for all these years in the state and violence engulfed as a reaction to the court ruling. The administration on the ground could not anticipate its intensity initially.
The top priority of the state government is to restore law & order which is gradually returning to normalcy. The Union Home Minister had “talked to the Kuki groups and assured them of speedy action.”
The current BJP's central leadership is not known to remove its Chief Ministers in states or even Union Ministers merely because there is demand of their resignation. “No Chief Minister has been remove under the current dispensation on failure of law and order. The BJP has removed Chief Ministers only when the party finds that elections can't be won under his leadership in the state.
