INVOKE NRC TO WEED OUT INFILTRATORS WHO HAVE ENTERED MANIPUR: EX-TOP COP

Thounaojam Brinda, once a decorated officer of Manipur Police who joined politics some three years back and is still technically a member of the Janata Dal-United party in the state, raised alarm that what is happening in the northeast state can turn into a serious national security crisis.

- INDRANI GHOSH

She urged the Union government to invoke the National Register of Citizens to identify all those immigrants, but at this point mostly militants from across the border in Burma, who have infiltrated every strata of the Manipur society. “They collect taxes on highways, have acquired Aadhaar, ensures smooth narco trade across borders, and make arms accessible.”

“What these groups have done will be catastrophic for the future generation of all tribes/people living in the area,” Brinda told The Sunday Guardian. Brinda said drugs, opium, and poppy cultivation are at the heart of the crisis. She pleaded with the government at the Centre “not to shy away from an effective response”, as she expressed the fear that the “Manipur crisis could easily snowball into a sub-continental problem if not attended to immediately”.