Union Min’s house in Manipur attacked

A women’s rally outside the Imphal residence of Union minister RK Ranjan Singh turned ugly when the protestors threw stones at it demanding that he speak in Parliament about the situation in the ethnic strife-affected state. This is the second time in two months that the house of the junior minister for external affairs came under attack. Students of Manipur University too took out a rally during the day demanding restoration of peace in the state. The police fired tear gas shells to disperse them as the youths crossed an area up to which permission was given to them to hold the rally. The incidents occurred days after a video showing two women being paraded naked and molested by a group of men on May 4 in Kangpokpi district surfaced on July 19, attracting condemnation countrywide. However, nobody was present at the house at the time of the attack and not much harm was done to it.