00:00 Namaskar.
00:01 Welcome to another episode of Editorial.
00:04 Today the government took a lot of steps regarding Manipur.
00:09 Number one is that the case where the women were paraded naked in Manipur, that case has
00:18 been transferred to the Central Bureau of Investigation.
00:21 The 4th of May case in Taobal district has been transferred to the Central Bureau of
00:24 Investigation.
00:25 Number two, the Central Government, that is the Ministry of Home Affairs has moved Supreme
00:32 Court requesting the court to move the case away from Manipur High Court to another state,
00:38 possibly Assam High Court.
00:40 That's point number two.
00:41 Point number three, it has given us a few details which I will get to.
00:46 My question is, are we solving the problem or are we resolving the symptoms?
00:56 Are we really looking at the core problem and trying to solve it?
01:00 Or are we purely looking at symptoms which have been picked up by media, which became
01:05 viral and therefore just sorting it out and brushing things under the carpet?
01:09 What are we trying to do?
01:11 Let's discuss this.
01:12 Let's get right into the show.
01:13 Now, the Central Government has taken a few decisions regarding Manipur and I am going
01:22 to read out those decisions to you.
01:25 First and foremost is like I said, the Home Ministry has moved the Supreme Court to request,
01:30 to pray to the Supreme Court that the Taobal case, the May 4th case removed from Manipur
01:36 and given to some other state.
01:38 That's the first thing they have requested.
01:40 Ideally, I think it will go to Assam.
01:42 That is what they say.
01:43 That is the first thing they have requested.
01:45 The second thing that they have done is they have taken away six cases from the police.
01:51 In fact, seven cases from the police and given to the CBI.
01:57 Three cases have been handed over to NIA.
02:00 Around 6065 FIRs have been filed by the state police.
02:05 According to the government sources, 72 percent of government employees returned to work,
02:11 82 percent of children are back to school.
02:15 The Centre will move to Supreme Court for Schedulka status for Maithi.
02:21 And according to the Centre, neither the army nor the police were present during the May
02:28 4th case in Taobal district.
02:31 This is what we understand from the Central Government said yesterday.
02:35 In fact, there are psychologists, special investigation officers appointed for Central
02:40 to help people, help people who face mental trauma.
02:44 So there are psychologists also that they have appointed.
02:49 Now all this looks good.
02:54 Let us understand, let us understand this threadware.
02:58 All these steps happened because of a viral video that the entire country, that saw outrage
03:08 in this entire country from Kashmir to Kanyakumari because of one viral video.
03:15 The question I ask tonight is if that viral video wouldn't have happened, would all these
03:19 steps be taken or would it let, would we just let it simmer?
03:24 That's the question number one I ask and I ask you this question for two reasons.
03:29 A is, what I see here is a lot of action taken on symptoms.
03:37 I don't think there is any major action taken on the core issue.
03:43 The core issue of what happens to the CM, why was the CM inactive?
03:51 That is the core issue.
03:52 We need to investigate that, which body is investigating that?
03:57 Why did the police not act?
03:59 Why was there inaction from the police?
04:02 According to a police officer, I spoke in three days, they could have sorted out this
04:06 matter.
04:07 Why was this matter not sorted out in three days?
04:10 I don't see any investigating, investigation on that issue.
04:15 I don't see any investigation on that issue.
04:18 What stopped the administration from acting?
04:20 That is one of the most important investigation that we should be doing.
04:23 I don't see that investigation happening.
04:26 What happens to the war on drugs?
04:29 What happens to the war on drugs?
04:31 How are we going to continue the war on drugs?
04:34 Continue that path, ensuring that it's not the cookies that you blame.
04:40 There are dealers, there are distributors, there are salespeople, there are politicians,
04:44 the whole cartel involved in the drugs.
04:46 How are you going to ensure that the war on drugs continue and war on drugs continue fairly
04:50 without purely blaming the cookies for it?
04:53 How is that going to happen?
04:55 What is the roadmap for that?
04:56 That's a question I want to ask.
04:59 What happens to forest reserves?
05:01 How are you going to ensure that you reserve your forest the way you want it, environment
05:06 is important, but other than harming just one community?
05:11 Having rehabilitation plan for that community when you are throwing that community out of
05:14 the forest, how are you going to do that?
05:19 Is there a roadmap for that?
05:20 Is there a plan for that?
05:21 I want to know.
05:22 How are we going to ensure that the mountain, the hill range of Manipur, there are infrastructures,
05:28 there are basic infrastructures, hospitals, schools, water, basic infrastructure, other
05:34 than focusing that all, other than ensuring all infrastructures are in Impal.
05:39 How do we ensure that we extend the infrastructure to the rest of Manipur so that the cookie
05:43 feels that they too are taken care of or Nagas too feel that they are taken care of?
05:48 Anyone, why Nagas and cookies, people who are staying in the hills are seen that they
05:52 are taken care of, feels that they are taken care of, other than having all the infrastructure
05:57 concentrated on the plateau that is Impal.
06:01 So when are we going to do that?
06:03 What's our roadmap for that?
06:06 What's our roadmap to bridge the economic wedge that is there between the hill tribe
06:12 and the people staying in the plain?
06:15 How are we going to wedge that economic gap so that there is the core of any problem,
06:23 the core of any problem, not only in Manipur, not only in India, across the globe, every
06:28 place, every nook and corner in the world, the core of any problem is economic wedge.
06:34 How are we going to ensure that that economic wedge is taken care of between the people
06:38 staying in the hills and people staying in the plain?
06:41 People staying in the plain are economically much better well to do than people staying
06:45 in the hills.
06:46 How are we going to take care of that?
06:48 There should be a panel sitting to discuss that.
06:52 Where is that panel?
06:53 I don't see that.
06:57 The government is proposing to hold talks with both the communities to bridge the mutual
07:03 distrust.
07:04 Fantastic.
07:05 That's what the center says.
07:06 Fantastic.
07:07 But I think, and this I tell my fellow Indians, the cookies and the methis in Manipur, don't
07:16 wait for the government to build that bridge.
07:18 You guys can build that bridge far more easier than the government interfering and making
07:22 and bridging those bridges.
07:26 I spoke to methis, I spoke to cookies, I spoke to some administrative officers, I spoke to
07:30 a lot of people in Manipur.
07:32 And the fact is, this issue can be easily resolved if there is people to people interaction.
07:40 There is no that much of hatred, actually.
07:44 Common people, there is no that much of hatred.
07:46 Few pockets, few fringe elements, maybe.
07:49 But common people, there is no that much of hatred for each other.
07:53 Like I was told, they are married to each other.
07:55 They have got relatives in, cookies have got married to methis, methis have got married
08:00 to cookies.
08:02 There is a bond.
08:03 There is no much wedge.
08:07 It's a matter of people to people meeting, other than involving politicians, other than
08:12 involving community leaders.
08:14 If people to people meet, this bridge can be, the bridge can be built between both these
08:20 communities.
08:21 That is a fact.
08:25 But the point remains that most of the steps that I see, I saw here, are steps that are
08:32 taken purely, purely as a knee jerk reaction.
08:37 Most of them are knee jerk reaction for that video, because that video came out and this
08:42 outrage happened and entire India is talking about it.
08:45 And most of these, most of these decisions are based on that.
08:48 Law and order decisions, of course, they woke up now and now they are trying to get everything
08:54 into place.
08:55 All that is fine.
08:57 But the fact is, Manipur needs permanent decisions.
09:01 Manipur needs permanent solutions.
09:04 And more than the government, I think permanent solutions can come if both the communities
09:08 on their own, people to people come, sit together and sort it out.
09:13 Mind you, the most permanent decisions that have ever been taken are taken by people and
09:18 not by governments.
09:19 When people take decisions, when people sit with each other, when people communicate with
09:24 each other, the decisions that comes through are 100 percent permanent.
09:29 That is what I would request people from Manipur to do.
09:32 This is a problem that you can resolve.
09:34 That said, most of the solutions that have been suggested, I think are good, but addressing
09:43 the symptoms and not the core problems.
09:45 Till I see you next time.
09:47 Namaskar.
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