NPP withdraws support from BJP Govt
IMPHAL: The NPP on Sunday withdrew support from the BJP-led Government in Manipur, even as violence continued to rock the state as offices of the Congress and the saffron party were ransacked in the hill district of Jiribam where an unidentified body was found earlier in the day, officials said.
A BJP MLA’s ancestral house of BJP MLA Kongkham Robindro in the evening, police said.The incident occurred a day after a house built by the legislator himself in the same district was attacked.Meanwhile, the Indigenous Tribal Leaders’ Forum (ITLF), a key organisation of the Kuki-Zo community in Manipur, on Sunday said their volunteers will have to arm themselves to protect their land and families until “armed Meitei groups are reined in”.Issuing a statement, the Kuki-Zo body urged the Centre to control the situation by nabbing the “Meitei militants” or else the majority community will have to face “more forceful retaliation”.“Until the armed Meitei groups are reined in, violence in the state will not stop. Kuki-Zo volunteers have no choice but to arm themselves to protect their land and their families,” it added.Security forces have intensified patrolling in parts of Imphal and increased deployment at many of the residences of legislators as well as all major roads leading to the secretariat, state BJP headquarters and Raj Bhavan.Curfew was imposed for an indefinite period in Imphal East and West, Bishnupur, Thoubal and Kakching districts of Imphal Valley “due to developing law and order situation”, he said.The state administration suspended internet services in seven districts.More than 200 people have been killed and thousands rendered homeless in ethnic violence between Imphal Valley-based Meiteis and adjoining hills-based Kukis in Manipur since May last year. (PTI)
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