NEW DELHI, May 22 -- 'Riots (read 'communal clashes') don't take place wherever BJP is in power.' The saffron party leaders are fond of making this statement from every available public platform. Union Home Minister Amit Shah said so again on April 3 at a public meeting in Bihar. Exactly 30 days from Shah's ominous declaration, on May 3, Manipur was on fire, nailing the party's lie and falsehood. The North-East state, the BJP's new-found grazing field, witnessed one of the worst communal clashes non-stop for three to four days. A lie can not become truth even if it is repeated several times.

What happened in Manipur is apparently communal clashes between the Meiteis and the Kukis. While majority of Meiteis are Hindus, the tribal Kukis a...