Former Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda on July 21 tweeted to express concern over the violence in Manipur and said that he “would like to play a role in bringing peace to the North East.”
He said in a tweet, “The Central government should act in a manner that restores the confidence of the people not just in Manipur and the North East but the entire nation. The gesture can be a symbolic one to begin with but has to be followed up with hard reconciliatory steps in the next few days. I am very disturbed. The people of the North East have been very special to me since my days as Prime Minister.”
