Manipur Violence: Days after violent clashes broke out within the northeastern state, Manipur’s Chief Minister of Sunday together with 4 members of his cupboard have gone to Delhi to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah to discuss the situation. Life is progressively limping again to normalcy in Manipur and amid prevailing normalcy, situation of the continued suspension of operation (SOO) with militant organisations of the state can be probably to be mentioned
Meeting with PM Modi
CM N Biren Singh is accompanied by Four cupboard ministers; Th Biswajit, Y Khemchand, Ok Govindas and Th Prasanta. As per the sources, BJP state president A Sharda Devi additionally went to Delhi with Singh.
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On May 3, to protest towards the Meitei neighborhood’s demand for Scheduled Tribe (ST) standing, a ‘Tribal Solidarity March’ was organised within the 10 hill districts. after which, violent clashes broke out within the northeastern state. The clashes have been preceded by stress over the eviction of Kuki villagers from reserve forest land, which had led to a sequence of smaller agitations.
As per a report of PTI, Meiteis account for about 53 per cent of Manipur’s inhabitants and dwell principally within the Imphal Valley. Tribals — Nagas and Kukis — represent one other 40 per cent of the inhabitants and reside within the hill districts. Chief Minister N Biren Singh had on Monday mentioned that 60 folks have been killed, 231 injured and 1,700 homes together with non secular locations burnt within the ethnic violence that rocked the northeastern state for the previous few days.
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