Tag: Dipankar Bhattacharya

Patna : CPI(ML) Liberation general secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya on Tuesday likened the ethnic strife in Manipur to communal riots that broke out in Gujarat when Prime Minister Narendra Modi was the western state’s chief minister. Addressing a press conference here, he claimed that “politics of ethnic cleansing” in the north-eastern state will become “a major issue” in the forthcoming elections just as the 2002 riots had dominated the discourse during the Lok Sabha polls of 2004. “We see lots of similarities between what is happening in BJP-ruled Manipur at present and...