Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh on Monday said that his government has filed an FIR against the president and three members of the Editors Guild of India (EGI), and accused them of trying to provoke clashes in the state. “The state government has filed an FIR against the members of the Editors Guild who are trying to create more clashes in the state of Manipur,” Singh told a press conference.
It said with the internet suspended, and communication and transport in disarray, the media had to rely almost entirely on the narrative of the state government.
The EGI pointed out that members of the state leadership labelled sections of the Kuki-Zo tribals as “illegal immigrants” and “foreigners” without any reliable data or evidence.
“This despite the fact that the decadal census from 1901 to 2011 has not shown any unusual growth of the non-Naga (the other minority tribal community) tribal population,” the report said.
