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Union Home Minister Amit Shah connected Wednesday (April 1, 2026) asked Manipur Chief Minister Yumnam Khemchand Singh to accelerate the ongoing bid process successful the State and approved the instauration of an all-woman constabulary battalion, according to a Manipur Government statement.
Mr. Singh called connected the Home Minister astatine Parliament House complex, wherever the 2 leaders discussed the instrumentality and bid concern successful the State.
During the meeting, Mr. Shah asked the Chief Minister to accelerate the bid process and consolidate the increasing bonhomie among antithetic communities, the connection said.
“Reviewing the prevailing information script successful Manipur with the Chief Minister, Mr. Shah agreed successful rule to raising a Mahila India Reserve Battalion (IRB) for the State and asked Mr. Singh to nonstop the proposal,” the connection said.
Ethnic unit betwixt the Meitei and Kuki-Zo communities erupted successful the State connected May 3, 2023, which has claimed astir 250 lives truthful far. The State was placed nether President’s Rule connected February 13, 2024, and Mr. Singh assumed the bureau arsenic Chief Minister connected February 4 this year.
Meanwhile, the burial of Vungzagin Valte, a BJP MLA from Manipur who was assaulted by a mob successful Imphal connected May 4, 2023 and passed distant astatine a infirmary successful Haryana’s Gurugram connected February 21, is yet to instrumentality place.
His assemblage is being preserved astatine the morgue of Churachandpur territory hospital.
Family members and Zomi assemblage leaders person enactment distant definite conditions earlier the past rites are performed. To property for their demands—including a probe by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) into the battle and a governmental solution—the Zomi Coordination Committee (ZCC) was formed.
On March 31, the ZCC said that the month-long Zomi National Mourning, observed successful honour of the MLA, has concluded, and successful the lack of a meaningful effect from the authorities acrophobic connected the issues of justness and accountability, antiauthoritarian agitations would statesman crossed Zomi areas successful a phased and coordinated mode with contiguous effect.
