Imphal, June 17 : Former Army Chief Ved Prakash Malik said on Friday that the law and order situation in Manipur needs "urgent attention at highest level".

In a tweet, General Malik tagged Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Home Minister Amit Shah, and wrote: “Law and order situation in Manipur needs urgent attention at highest level.”

Malik was responding to a tweet by a lieutenant general (retired) L Nishikanta Singh, a retired senior army officer from Manipur, who claimed that “the state is now stateless”.  A day after Union Minister RK Ranjan Singh’s house was set on fire by a mob, Nishikanta Singh tweeted the state is now “stateless”, and compared the situation in Manipur to that in Libya, Lebanon, Nigiria and Syria. “It appears Manipur has been left to stew in its own juice. Is anyone listening?” asked the former Lieutenant General.