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Five months earlier his death, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA from Manipur, Vungzagin Valte, wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi detailing however helium was brutally attacked by the “Meitei militia [Arambai Tenggol]”.
Mr. Valte had said that the onslaught near him with terrible injuries that paralysed him, and contempt the gravity of the incident, nary peculiar inquiry, either by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) oregon the National Investigation Agency (NIA), was ever initiated.
The missive was sent connected September 13, 2025, erstwhile Mr. Modi made his maiden sojourn to Manipur aft the taste unit broke retired connected May 3, 2023. Arambai Tenggol, a comparatively caller extremist Meitei equipped group, gained notoriety aft the struggle betwixt the Meitei and Kuki-Zo communities started.
Mr. Valte, who ne'er recovered from the life-threatening injuries aft being assaulted by a mob connected May 4, 2023, passed distant astatine a backstage infirmary successful Gurugram, Haryana, connected February 20. “The apprehension whitethorn instrumentality clip arsenic helium was attacked by a mob. We are pursuing each leads,” Losii Dikho, Deputy Chief Minister, Manipur told The Hindu.
In the letter, Mr. Valte had said that arsenic a three-term MLA and BJP advisor to erstwhile Chief Minister N. Biren Singh, helium had “witnessed firsthand the challenges faced by the Zomi-Kuki-Hmar community”.
“On May 4, 2023, aft attending information gathering astatine CM’s office, to sermon the harmless proscription of my radical particularly Churachandpurians stranded successful Imphal owed to the taste violence, I was brutally attacked connected my mode backmost location astatine RIMS Road by the Meitei militia [Arambai Tenggol], resulting successful terrible injuries that person near maine paralysed and handicapped till date. Despite the gravity of this incident, nary peculiar enquiry [CBI/NIA] has been initiated, and the assemblage remains marginalised,” the missive said.
He added that the Zomi-Kuki-Hmar assemblage had been driven retired of the State superior Imphal and from the valley, starring to implicit carnal and societal divide. “In airy of this, I humbly petition that a Separate Administration, preferably a Union Territory with a legislature nether the Indian Constitution, beryllium granted to the indigenous tribal assemblage arsenic mentioned above,” the missive said.
Mr. Valte had said that a abstracted medication would guarantee justice, administrative convenience, and a lasting solution. He had said that his entreaty aligned with the demands of the Kuki National Organisation and the United People’s Front, who are seeking a governmental solution done Suspension of Operations talks. “I impulse you to see this petition astatine the highest level, arsenic forced imposition of bid has proven unsustainable successful Manipur’s history,” his missive said.
On the fateful day, erstwhile Mr. Valte was going to his authoritative residence astatine Lamphelpat successful Imphal, his car was stopped by a radical of radical wearing achromatic clothes. He and his driver, Thanghoulal, besides a Kuki-Zo, were taken to a assemblage centre adjacent and physically assaulted portion his idiosyncratic information officer, Elangbam Mapu, a Meitei, was fto off. Based connected Mapu’s complaint, a First Information Report was registered astatine the Imphal constabulary presumption for effort to execution and causing grievous wounded against “unknown persons”.
