Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that the Indian Army will not be able to solve anything as he reacted to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's comment on handling the Manipur issue with the help of the Army.
Himanta Sarma spoke about the brutality of the Indian Army referring to the Mizoram bombing incident where Air Force planes attacked Indian citizens in 1966 which was also raised as a point in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's speech at Lok Sabha.
On Friday told the reporters, "Indian Airforce did that in Aizawl, they spreaded bombs (sic) and violence was coming down. Today, Rahul Gandhi is saying that Indian Army should atop the violence. That means what? They should open fire on civilians? Is it his prescription? How can he say that. Army will not (be) able to solve anything. They will only (be) able to temporarily quite, or bring peace in the given situation. But solution has to come from the heart, not from bullets."
Further, he also claimed that the opposition front has "completely exposed their designs" as they walked out of the Parliament during PM Modi's over than 2 hours long speech. According to Sarma, PM Modi spoke from his heart and for the northeast.
Sarma reportedly said, "He also demonstrated how much affection he has for the people of northeast. We are immensely happy, opposition will not be happy. I hope that as a principal party, the opposition should listen the PM speech till last."
What did Rahul Gandhi say?
The opposition leader said he had full faith in the Indian Army, which can set the situation right and bring it under control within two days, but the Prime Minister was not doing so.
It would take the Indian Army two days to put an end to the "nonsense" going on there, he said and added "There are reasons for the PM not being able to go to Manipur. I don't want to speak about them publicly."
"The Prime Minister refuses to stop the fire, he wants Manipur to burn, he allows Manipur to burn because if he did want it to stop, there are tools in the hands of the government that can stop it immediately," Gandhi alleged.
