India, Oct. 21 -- Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union home minister Amit Shah over the failure to restore peace in Manipur, the displacements and the lack of accountability in the ethnic violence-hit state.

In a post on X, he called the continuing bloodshed in the strategically vital border state a grave indictment of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'s failure to ensure law and order, protect constitutional rights and safeguard national security.

Kharge's comments came on the day a bandh called against the killing of a 45-year-old Kuki man the day before paralysed the Kangpokpi district amid a spike in ethnic violence in Manipur. It coincided with the second and last day of a ...