Accountability for Manipur violence must be fixed: TMC | India News

KOLKATA: Demanding “accountability” and not “whataboutery”, Trinamool Congress said on Saturday that “responsibility needs to be fixed” for Manipur.

The Centre was “denying the reality”, senior Bengal minister Sashi Panja said. “The Centre is in denial mode. Accountability needs to be fixed. No one is taking responsibility for it, neither the PM nor the Union home minister, or even the state (Manipur) government or its CM (N Biren Singh),” she said.
“Blaming Twitter” also does not help, she added.

Panja, without naming Smriti Irani, said: “As a women and child development minister, I would also like to ask the Union minister (of this department) what has she done (about Manipur). Like the PM she, too, has spoken on a lot many things these 78 days, but what has she to say on this (Manipur)? What stopped her from going (to Manipur)?”
Panja alleged that when the incident took place on May 4 (when two women were gang-raped, stripped and paraded naked), the PM was busy in the Karnataka poll campaign. “He had undertaken several international visits thereafter, but ignored Manipur,” she said.
“Parliament is open, the PM has to give a statement. That is what democracy asks of us,” Panja said.