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GUWAHATI: Around a dozen protesters were wounded in a clash with security forces in Manipur’s Churachandpur Thursday as initial resentment within the Kuki-Zo community over its MLA Nemcha Kipgen agreeing to be a deputy CM in the reinstated NDA govt snowballed into a backlash. The influential Kuki Zo Council declared a social boycott of any…
Nemcha Kipgen (File photo) GUWAHTI: Around a dozen protesters were wounded in a clash with security forces in Manipur’s Churachandpur Thursday as initial resentment within the Kuki-Zo community over its MLA Nemcha Kipgen agreeing to be a deputy CM in the reinstated NDA government snowballed into a backlash. The influential Kuki Zo Council declared a…
File photo for representation NEW DELHI: Clashes broke out in Manipur’s Kuki-dominated Churachandpur district on Thursday evening after protests erupted against MLA Nemcha Kipgen joining the BJP-led government as deputy chief minister.According to officials, protesters gathered near Tuibong Bazaar and set fire to a heap of discarded materials, including tyres. They also raised slogans against…
Newly elected CM Khemchand Yumnam met Manipur governor Ajay Bhalla at Manipur Lok Bhavan in Imphal on Wednesday. GUWAHATI/IMPHAL: Yumnam Khemchand Singh of BJP was sworn in Wednesday as the CM of Manipur’s reinstated NDA govt along with Kuki legislator Nemcha Kipgen and Naga MLA Losii Dikho as his deputies, marking a fresh spin on…
NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata Party‘s Y Khemchand Singh was sworn in as the chief minister of Manipur on Wednesday. The NDA legislature party leader staked claim to form the government in the state earlier in the day. The ethnic violence-torn state was under President’s rule since February last year.Kuki BJP MLA Nemcha Kipgen and Naga…
GUWAHATI: After a professional footballer, Manipur is all set to have a taekwondo expert as the new chief minister with BJP MLA Yumnam Khemchand Singh, elected as leader of the BJP legislature party in Manipur assembly.The new govt will assume office nearly a year after former CM N Biren Singh, who played football for BSF,…
NEW DELHI: Yumnam Khemchand Singh, a former Manipur assembly speaker, second-term MLA and a taekwondo master, is set to be the new CM of the state after BJP MLAs elected him as their leader on Tuesday, paving the way for the installation of a popular govt to replace President’s Rule imposed on Feb 13 last…
NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata Party leader Yumnam Khemchand is set to become the chief minister of Manipur after he was elected as the leader of legislative party on Tuesday.This comes after a meeting of the BJP’s legislative members meeting was held in the party headquarters in Delhi.Last year on Feb 9, then Manipur chief minister…
BJP leader Tarun Chugh (File photo/ANI) NEW DELHI: The BJP appeared set to form the government in Manipur after the party on Monday appointed senior leader Tarun Chugh as central observer to oversee the election of the leader of its legislature party in the northeastern state, which has been under President’s rule since February last…
Devpt Comes As President’s Rule Set To Complete 1yr Manipur’s NDA lawmakers have been summoned to New Delhi, triggering fresh speculation that an elected govt could be restored in the violence-scarred state as President’s rule nears its first anniversary.More than 35 NDA MLAs and party functionaries left Imphal on Sunday after being asked by BJP’s…
