Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Friday said Indian Army "won't be able to solve anything" in Manipur, and the solution to the ethnic violence that has now continued for over 100 days should come "from the heart and not bullets".
A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke on the no-confidence motion in Parliament, former Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Friday criticised him saying that instead of talking about the violence in Manipur, he was cracking jokes and laughing while his party leaders indulged in sloganeering.