In Parliament, Manipur is let down again

In the early hours of Thursday, just before calling it a day, Lok Sabha discussed the imposition of President's Rule in Manipur. It took less than an hour to ratify the government's decision. Throughout the Budget session, the state received scant attention. To those who have observed the government's neglect of the state in the past two years, the short shrift to Manipur in Parliament wasn't surprising. In the second week of March, a spirited outburst by Outer Manipur MP, Alfred Arthur Kanngam, had drawn attention to the state's budget, which had made no attempts to bridge the imbalance between…