Imphal, Feb 14 (Reporter) The Congress and the CPI-M on Friday came down heavily on the Centre for imposing President’s rule in Manipur. Leader of the Congress in the Assembly and former state Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh said no one in democratic India has seen in the past the sort of crisis going on in Manipur since May 2023. Ibobi told mediapersons that the people of Manipur and the Congress don’t want President’s rule, whose imposition he termed as a "wrong step" on the part of the Central government. The people of Manipur will suffer more under the President's rule, Ibobi said. He said the way the Centre is dealing with a democratically elected government is "deplorable". Any government which is in Manipur whether it is of the BJP or the Congress, takes charge after getting the people's mandate. If the Centre does not respect the mandate of the people and resorts to such action that is not acceptable, Ibobi said. Ibobi questioned why the Central government removed all the Constitutional powers from the Chief Minister. If such things happened when there was a Congress government in the state, the situation would have been different. Law and order is a state subject, and the state government should control the situation using state forces, he added. Kshetrimayum Santa, Secretary, CPI(M), Manipur State Committee, said the imposition of the President’s rule in Manipur underlines the "utter bankruptcy" of the BJP's "double engine government" under whose rule the state has been in violent turmoil for two years. President’s rule has been imposed not in the interests of Manipur but to buy time to settle the internal conflicts within the ruling coalition, particularly the BJP, he added. Calling the Chief Minister "the main culprit" backed all along by the BJP-RSS, the CPI-M leader said N Biren was forced to resign because his partisan role was being examined by a court where evidence was presented of his sectarian partisan role which left him with no choice but to quit. During these developments, the central leadership of the ruling party and the Central government refused to take the required action to alleviate the deep suffering inflicted on the people of Manipur symbolised by the Prime Minister’s "callous refusal" to even visit the troubled state, he said...////...