They cannot, because Hindutva teaches them that Hindus are the true inhabitants of Bharatvarsha, and others can live in the country only under Hindu tutelage. What Haokip terms the Prime Minister’s “hollow rhetoric” rings just as hollow in Jammu and Kashmi too. So, where Patricia Mukhim had spotted a week before Modi flew to Manipur that “the prospect of resolution exists”, Hausing, writing after the visit, concludes that Modi’s long-awaited visit to Manipur was “a wasted opportunity”. I firmly believe that it could not have been otherwise, for our Prime Minister’s majoritarian Hindutva mindset renders him incapable of understanding minority concerns. Mani Shankar Aiyar served as the Congress Observer for the hill States of the North-East, including Manipur, for several years and was later Union Minister for the Development of the North-Eastern Region.