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Manipur Congress president Keisham Meghachandra connected Wednesday (December 31, 2025) said the lone means to reconstruct bid and normalcy successful the ethnic strife-torn State successful 2026 is to dissolve the Assembly and clasp caller elections.
Mr. Meghachandra told reporters, "While everyone other is celebrating the New Year everywhere, successful Manipur, we are not seeing these celebrations. The lone solution for the payment of the radical of the State is to dissolve the contiguous Assembly. Our request is the dissolution of the Assembly and a caller mandate. It's the lone means to bring bid and normalcy successful the State."
Mr. Meghachandra besides said, "The ongoing situation has exposed the nonaccomplishment of the contiguous dispensation to code the aspirations and grievances of the people." The Congress person besides expressed anticipation that the New Year would bring clarity, justice, and a people-driven governmental alteration for lasting bid successful Manipur.
Meanwhile, BJP MLA Tongbram Robindro told reporters, "We person had respective festivals and celebrations, including the Sangai festival, Orange festival, Christmas and Meitei's ain Emoinu festival successful November and December."
“At specified festive time, I entreaty to each the radical crossed the communities to forgive and hide each differences and misunderstandings and instrumentality to earlier peace, normalcy, and cordial relations with the coming of the caller year," Mr. Robindro said.
Manipur has been nether President's regularisation since February 13, aft past Chief Minister N. Biren Singh, who was heading a BJP-led government, resigned connected February 9 pursuing taste unit that claimed implicit 260 lives since May 2023.
The 60-member State Assembly, which has a tenure till 2027, has been enactment nether suspended animation. After the imposition of the President's rule, Governor Ajay Kumar Bhalla had taken a fig of steps to reconstruct bid and bring backmost normalcy, including asking those who looted arms from information forces to surrender them.
The violence betwixt the Meitei and Kuki communities started aft a 'Tribal Solidarity March' was organised successful the elevation districts to protestation against the Meitei community's request for Scheduled Tribe (ST) status.
