Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge said on Sunday said his party’s no-confidence motion, mounting public pressure, and the Supreme Court investigation resulted in the “discredited resignation of Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh”. Kharge, who along with Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi visited Manipur on January 14 last year to launch the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra, which started from Manipur, said that the resignation of Biren Singh is like “shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted!”

In a post on the X, he said: “It is painful to say that for 21 months, the BJP ignited a fire in Manipur and left the people, across communities to fend for themselves. Their rank incompetence and utter disregard for Rajdharma resulted in at least 258 people having died, more than 5,600 arms and 6.5 lakh rounds of ammunition were looted from police armouries, more than 60,000 people displaced and thousands still forced to live in relief camps.”