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Manipur Chief Minister Yumnam Khemchand Singh said definite elements were moving against his government’s efforts to reconstruct bid and normality successful the State.
Addressing a programme successful Imphal West district’s Singjamei, his Assembly constituency, connected Wednesday (June 17, 2026), helium said the continuing unit has affected developmental projects.
“There person been respective incidents of unrest aft I became the Chief Minister. The attraction connected maintaining instrumentality and bid has made it hard for america to absorption connected development,” Mr. Singh said.
‘Have a duty’
He, however, said the instrumentality and bid concern could not beryllium an excuse for not pushing developmental projects. “We cannot tally distant from our duties,” helium said.
The Chief Minister recalled his visits to conflict-hit areas and meetings with radical of each 3 large communities — Kuki, Meitei, and Naga — crossed the State to entreaty for bid and reconciliation.
“I judge determination are immoderate radical who bash not privation bid successful our land. Some radical presume that bid would rob them of their income,” helium said.
Mr. Singh became the Chief Minister connected February 4, astir a twelvemonth aft President’s Rule was imposed successful Manipur. He served arsenic the Speaker of the State Assembly from March 2017 to March 2022.
The taste unit successful Manipur — the archetypal betwixt the Kuki-Zo and Meitei communities and past betwixt the Kuki-Zos and Nagas — since May 2023 has claimed astatine slightest 270 quality lives and displaced much than 62,000 others.
30 extremist sites destroyed
Meanwhile, the Manipur constabulary said combined teams of the Army, paramilitary forces, and State constabulary dismantled astir 30 bunkers, outposts, and strategical campy sites of extremist groups successful the Kuki-dominated Kangpokpi territory during the 24 hours since June 16.
The constabulary said successful a connection that 11 rifles and six bullet-proof vests were among the arms and ammunition recovered during the period. “Intelligence-based combing, cordon, and hunt operations are being carried retired extensively to nab those progressive successful extortion and transgression activities successful the State,” it said.
