‘Manipur should be given priority’: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat

CNN Central News & Network–ITDC India Epress/ITDC News Bhopal: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat has raised concern over the prevailing situation in Manipur and said the northeast state has been waiting for peace for a year.

Addressing a gathering of RSS trainees at the concluding programme of organisation’s ‘Karyakarta Vikas Varg- Dwitiya’ at the Dr Hedgewar Smriti Bhavan premises in Nagpur’s Reshimbagh, Bhagwat asserted that the situation in Manipur must be considered with priority.

“Manipur is waiting for peace for the last one year. There was peace in Manipur 10 years ago. It felt like gun culture had finished there. But the state has suddenly seen violence,” he said.

Bhagwat emphasised that there is a need to get over election rhetoric and focus on problems facing the nation.

The RSS chief also criticised the practice of attacking each other during election campaigns, the misuse of technology, and the dissemination of false information.