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Union Home Minister Amit Shah held a key meeting to review the security situation in the state on Monday (November 18). The Centre has decided to send an additional 50 CAPF companies comprising more than 5,000 personnel to Manipur, PTI reported.
This comes after the Home Ministry rushed 20 additional CAPF companies, 15 from the CRPF and five from the BSF, to the state following after violence broke out in Jiribam district and spread to other places.
National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, Union Home Secretary Govind Mohan and Intelligence Bureau Director Tapan Deka, among other top officials, attended the meeting.
The situation in the state, which has been reeling from ethnic strife since May 2023, has been volatile following protests and violence after the recovery of bodies of women and children.
Irate mobs set fire to the residences of three more BJP legislators, one of whom is a senior minister, and a Congress MLA in various districts of Imphal Valley on November 16 night even as security forces foiled an attempt by agitators to storm the ancestral residence of Chief Minister N Biren Singh.
More than 220 people have been killed and thousands rendered homeless in ethnic violence between Imphal Valley-based Meiteis and adjoining hills-based Kuki-Zo groups since May last year. It started after a 'Tribal Solidarity March' was organised in the hill districts to protest against the Meitei community's demand for Scheduled Tribe (ST) status.
The ethnically diverse Jiribam, which was largely untouched by the clashes, witnessed violence after the mutilated body of a farmer was found in a field in June this year.
Here are the latest updates:
# Eight key office bearers of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Jiribam Mandal in Manipur have submitted their resignations.
# The Centre has decided to send an additional 50 CAPF companies comprising more than 5,000 personnel to Manipur, PTI reported.
This comes after the Home Ministry rushed 20 additional CAPF companies, 15 from the CRPF and five from the BSF, to the state following after violence broke out in Jiribam district and spread to other places.
# The Congress asserted that Prime Minister Narendra Modi must visit the troubled state before the Parliament session. The opposition party has demanded Amit Shah's resignation for the "double engine government's complete failure" there.
# NPP (National People's Party) withdrew its support to the Manipur government on November 17, with immediate effect.
Meghalaya CM and NPP chief Conrad Sangma said, "We are hopeful that serious note should be taken about what's happening in Manipur and we are hopeful that positive steps will be taken to see that normalcy would return, peace and law and order would come back in the state of Manipur and that's what we are hoping for. As the second-largest party in Manipur, we are happy to cooperate and work in a positive way to find a solution to this problem. We were very hopeful that we would be able to see the situation improve in Manipur from the government's side."
# A protester was killed in firing during a clash between security forces and a mob that was vandalising properties in the Jiribam district. Police told PTI that one person was killed in the firing but said it was not immediately clear who opened fire, while eyewitnesses claimed the firing came from the direction of the security forces.
# The Manipur state authorities have imposed a curfew in Imphal West and Imphal East.
# Security has been tightened outside Chief Minister N Biren Singh's residence and Raj Bhavan.
# The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has taken over three cases linked to the violence leading to the loss of lives and disruption in public order in Manipur. The agency took over these cases from Manipur Police following a recent order issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs.
# News18 reported that Additional troops are likely to be deployed in Manipur. The report added that companies of CAPFs will be deployed evenly in both the hilly and valley areas to maintain law and order, with a particular focus on the valley.
This comes after the Home Ministry rushed 20 additional CAPF companies, 15 from the CRPF and five from the BSF, to the state following after violence broke out in Jiribam district and spread to other places.
National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, Union Home Secretary Govind Mohan and Intelligence Bureau Director Tapan Deka, among other top officials, attended the meeting.
The situation in the state, which has been reeling from ethnic strife since May 2023, has been volatile following protests and violence after the recovery of bodies of women and children.
Irate mobs set fire to the residences of three more BJP legislators, one of whom is a senior minister, and a Congress MLA in various districts of Imphal Valley on November 16 night even as security forces foiled an attempt by agitators to storm the ancestral residence of Chief Minister N Biren Singh.
More than 220 people have been killed and thousands rendered homeless in ethnic violence between Imphal Valley-based Meiteis and adjoining hills-based Kuki-Zo groups since May last year. It started after a 'Tribal Solidarity March' was organised in the hill districts to protest against the Meitei community's demand for Scheduled Tribe (ST) status.
The ethnically diverse Jiribam, which was largely untouched by the clashes, witnessed violence after the mutilated body of a farmer was found in a field in June this year.
Here are the latest updates:
# Eight key office bearers of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Jiribam Mandal in Manipur have submitted their resignations.
# The Centre has decided to send an additional 50 CAPF companies comprising more than 5,000 personnel to Manipur, PTI reported.
This comes after the Home Ministry rushed 20 additional CAPF companies, 15 from the CRPF and five from the BSF, to the state following after violence broke out in Jiribam district and spread to other places.
# The Congress asserted that Prime Minister Narendra Modi must visit the troubled state before the Parliament session. The opposition party has demanded Amit Shah's resignation for the "double engine government's complete failure" there.
# NPP (National People's Party) withdrew its support to the Manipur government on November 17, with immediate effect.
Meghalaya CM and NPP chief Conrad Sangma said, "We are hopeful that serious note should be taken about what's happening in Manipur and we are hopeful that positive steps will be taken to see that normalcy would return, peace and law and order would come back in the state of Manipur and that's what we are hoping for. As the second-largest party in Manipur, we are happy to cooperate and work in a positive way to find a solution to this problem. We were very hopeful that we would be able to see the situation improve in Manipur from the government's side."
# A protester was killed in firing during a clash between security forces and a mob that was vandalising properties in the Jiribam district. Police told PTI that one person was killed in the firing but said it was not immediately clear who opened fire, while eyewitnesses claimed the firing came from the direction of the security forces.
# The Manipur state authorities have imposed a curfew in Imphal West and Imphal East.
# Security has been tightened outside Chief Minister N Biren Singh's residence and Raj Bhavan.
# The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has taken over three cases linked to the violence leading to the loss of lives and disruption in public order in Manipur. The agency took over these cases from Manipur Police following a recent order issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs.
# News18 reported that Additional troops are likely to be deployed in Manipur. The report added that companies of CAPFs will be deployed evenly in both the hilly and valley areas to maintain law and order, with a particular focus on the valley.
First Published: Nov 18, 2024 11:45 AM IST
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