EAM: Crisis partly due to migrants' presence

A part of the trouble in Manipur is due to the migrants (from Myanmar), there is an "ideological agenda, biases, factual distortions" behind the criticism of India's human rights record, and New Delhi will pursue its own path of health, economic, climate, and development and security policy, external affairs minister S Jaishankar has said.

- Prashant Jha

During a conversation at the Council of Foreign Relations in New York, when a representative of Human Rights Watch asked him about Manipur and what the government is doing, Jaishankar said, "One part of the problem in Manipur has been the destabilising impact of migrants who have come. That's one aspect of it. There are tensions which obviously have a long history that precede that. Today, the effort on part of the state and Union government is to find a way so that normalcy returns, that arms which were seized are recovered, and that there is adequate law and order enforcement so that incidents of violence don't happen."