Rahul Gandhi meets violence-affected individuals in Manipur’s Jiribam district.
Congress chief Rahul Gandhi in the present day visited a aid camp in Manipur for individuals displaced by the ethnic violence within the northeastern state. A number of movies and images confirmed the Chief of the Opposition in Lok Sabha interacting with individuals within the camp in Tuibong village in Churachandpur district.
He was additionally seen greeting the native leaders, employees and volunteers outdoors the camp.
LoP Shri @RahulGandhi visits a aid camp in Manipur’s Churachandpur district, the place hundreds of violence-hit individuals have taken refuge. pic.twitter.com/iBMWFrmL3S
— Congress (@INCIndia) July 8, 2024
LoP Shri @RahulGandhi visits a aid camp in Tuibong village of Manipur and interacts with displaced households affected by the violence.
📍Churachandpur, Manipur pic.twitter.com/W97Efl5Q8M
— Congress (@INCIndia) July 8, 2024
Rahul Gandhi, who arrived on the Imphal airport this afternoon, visited the Jiribam Larger Secondary College aid camp earlier in the present day and supplied help to the victims of violence there.
Hours earlier than his go to, suspected insurgents fired at an armoured automobile of the safety forces in Jiribam this morning.
“LoP Rahul Gandhi visits Jiribam Larger Secondary College aid camp, meets victims of violence and presents help of their darkest hour. His third go to to Manipur post-violence reveals his unwavering dedication to the individuals’s trigger,” the Congress stated in a submit on X.
Mr Gandhi is scheduled to name on Governor Anusuiya Uikey at 5.30 pm after which he’ll handle a press convention on the Manipur Congress workplace at 6.15 pm.
Congress legislature get together chief O Ibobi Singh stated, “Mr Gandhi visited the state twice for the reason that outbreak of the violence on Could 3 final 12 months. He has visited aid camps to be taught concerning the pains and sorrow of the individuals.”
That is Mr Gandhi’s third go to to the state and first, after the Lok Sabha elections, wherein the Congress received each constituencies within the ethnic violence-hit state.
His first go to to take inventory of the state of affairs within the hill state got here practically two months after the violence when he visited Churachandpur, one of many worst-hit districts within the Manipur ethnic strife.
Mr Gandhi’s subsequent go to got here throughout the second leg of his Bharat Jodo Yatra. The Congress kicked off the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra from Manipur with a promise to “deliver peace and concord” to the ethnic violence-hit state.
Clashes broke out in Manipur after a ‘Tribal Solidarity March’ was organised within the hill districts on Could 3 final 12 months to protest towards the Meitei neighborhood’s demand for Scheduled Tribe (ST) standing. The violence has claimed greater than 180 lives and left hundreds homeless.