“Deep State Does Not Want Peace in Manipur”, Goa Chronicles, January 08, 2026
“Manipur today stands as a painful reminder that conflicts do not always survive on hatred alone. Many are kept alive, nurtured, and reignited by forces that thrive on instability. The back-to-back IED explosions in Bishnupur district on Monday morning are not random acts of violence; they are calculated disruptions. They are messages. And they underline one uncomfortable truth: there are vested interests – what can only be described as a deep state ecosystem – that do not want peace to return to Manipur.
Between 5.40am and 5.45am, two IEDs exploded inside an abandoned house in the sensitive Saiton–Nganukhong area under Phougakchao police station, a volatile border zone between Meitei-majority Bishnupur and Kuki-Zo-majority Churachandpur. A third explosion followed at 8.45am, barely 200 metres away. Two civilians were injured, but the deeper wound was inflicted on trust, stability, and the fragile hope of reconciliation.
This was not just another security lapse. The timing is critical. The blasts occurred barely two days after Union Home Minister Amit Shah chaired a high-level security review in Delhi, attended by Governor A.K. Bhalla, DGP Rajiv Singh and security advisor Kuldiep Singh. When violence erupts immediately after such meetings, it is rarely coincidental. It is often an attempt to embarrass the system, sabotage policy direction, and signal defiance to the authority of the Indian state…..”
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