The former vice president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Mizoram, R. Vanramchhuanga, who resigned from the party on July 13, accusing it of being “an anti-Christian party,” has said that the prime minister is a “failure.”Vanramchhuanga said: “The prime minister is head of the government and he’s constitutionally, politically, and morally responsible to safeguard his citizens.”He added that the prime minister has failed in all three aspects in Manipur.In a 33-minute interview to Karan Thapar for The Wire, Vanramchhuanga raised a series of questions about Prime Minister Narendra Modi, asking why he is keeping mum on the situation in Manipur.“Why doesn’t he declare President’s Rule? Why doesn’t he safeguard and comfort the tribal people? Why doesn’t he safeguard Christians?” he asked.Vanramchhuanga then appeared to answer the questions himself and said: “I believe, I say, he has totally failed to protect his citizens.”In the interview, he directly held responsible both Manipur chief minister N. Biren Singh and Union home minister Amit Shah for their failure to prevent Christian churches from being burnt to ashes, as well as their failure to protect the Kuki Christian people.“The most irresponsible people behind this conflict are Manipur chief minister N. Biren Singh and Union home minister Amit Shah. They failed to protect the victims, the Christians,” he said.He agreed that the Union home minister is guilty of “dereliction of duty” and of failing to fulfil his “moral responsibility” as home minister. He added that Shah has “failed his oath taken on the Constitution.”In his resignation letter dated July 13, he said that “357 Christian churches, pastor quarters and office buildings belonging to different churches were, so far, burnt to ashes by Meitei militants.”In the interview, he said not only does he stand by this [claim], he is “certain” of it. He said although he’s not in Manipur, this has been “confirmed” by various sources and organisations.He said in all probability, the actual burning was done by Arambai Tenggol and Meitei Leepun.Speaking to The Print after his resignation, he had said the BJP is “an anti-Christian party.” He said he stands by that and explained why he believes that to be the case.However, he added that he does not regret joining the BJP. He has been a member for five to six years. He joined it in the hope that the BJP would help in the development of Mizoram, but now he is deeply disillusioned and upset by the saffron party’s failure to protect Christians in Manipur.In the interview, he said although he lives in Mizoram, he has heard reports that there has been a “deterioration” in the atmosphere for Indian Christians in the country. He spoke about how Christians have been jailed in Uttar Pradesh simply because they are Christians.On the European Parliament’s debate and resolution on Manipur, he said whilst this is in a sense “interference”, because it’s an Indian matter, he argued it’s justified by the same logic by which India in 1971 intervened in East Pakistan over the Bangladesh issue or by the same logic by which the Modi government repeatedly criticises Pakistan for its treatment of Hindus.Finally, he said that what’s happening in Manipur will have an adverse impact on the BJP’s electoral performance in Mizoram in November when elections are due.