Modi while returning from the BRICS summit via Greece flew directly to Bengaluru to congratulate the ISRO scientists on the success of the Chandrayaan 3 mission. This kind of indicates how important it is for Modi to share the limelight with super achievers for which he is willing to give mindshare and also time to go meet them. Now just before the G20 summit he is off to Indonesia to attend the ASEAN meet. For this he has to overfly Manipur which is not on his agenda at all. That he should go there and find out the problems of the people there, commiserate with the victims and provide a healing touch along with an assurance that he will apply his mind to find a lasting solution to the fractured social structure is something that has escaped Modi. For 4 months now Manipur has been smouldering with the tensions not subsiding and in fact picking up again because of the bumbling Chief Minister and Home Minister Amit Shah stoking the fires of the problem rather than finding a solution and Modi instead of pulling up his lieutenants, is involving himself in his persona building activities of international visits and summit meetings.
