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Hundreds of displaced radical connected Sunday (November 30, 2025) staged a protestation adjacent the Raj Bhavan, demanding they beryllium allowed to instrumentality to their homes, constabulary said.
The displaced radical from Churachandpur, Kangpokpi, Imphal West, and Imphal East districts, who person been staying astatine antithetic alleviation camps present aft taste unit broke retired successful May 2023, raised slogans for boycotting the ongoing Sangai tourism festival and demanded that they beryllium allowed to instrumentality to their homes.
The protesters held placards that read, "Displaced lives matter", "people boycott Sangai festival", "rights archetypal tourism later", "ensure our cardinal rights".
The protesters who came from assorted alleviation camps were stopped by information forces adjacent the Kangla Gate, astir 200 metres from the Raj Bhavan, the constabulary said.
The demonstrators were stopped by information forces from advancing further towards the Raj Bhavan and aboriginal took a rally towards Uripok country successful Imphal West district.
Displaced persons to fortify protest
Irom Abung Meitei, a displaced idiosyncratic from Churachandpur district, told reporters, "The displaced radical gathered present contiguous to signifier a protestation owed to mounting vexation towards the government. The Sangai festival is being held by claiming normalcy portion ignoring the plights of the displaced persons." Irom said, "... we volition instrumentality our protests further successful the coming days by not returning to alleviation camps."
Internally displaced persons (IDPs) person clashed with information forces aggregate times since the Sangai Festival began connected November 21, seeking to instrumentality to their homes. The displaced persons and civilian nine organisations maintained that arsenic the authorities has asserted, by holding the Sangai festival, that normalcy has been restored, the IDPs beryllium allowed to instrumentality to their homes.
More than 260 radical person been killed and thousands rendered stateless successful taste unit betwixt Imphal Valley-based Meiteis and adjoining hills-based Kukis successful Manipur since May 2023.
