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President Droupadi Murmu began her two-day sojourn to Manipur connected Thursday (December 11, 2025) amid a shutdown called by a conglomerate of banned equipped organisations.
The Coordination Committee, comprising 7 Imphal Valley-based extremist groups, announced 2 days agone that the shutdown would stay successful unit until the President near the conflict-scarred State.
Shops and markets successful Imphal and adjoining areas remained closed, and vehicles were mostly disconnected the roads erstwhile the President reached the State’s capital, Imphal, astatine astir 1 p.m. Her maiden sojourn to the State began with witnessing a polo accumulation lucifer astatine the city’s Mapal Kangjeibung.
In the evening, she addressed a civic reception, hosted successful her honour by the State government.
Ms. Murmu volition sojourn the Nupi Lal Memorial Complex successful Imphal connected Friday (December 11, 2025) and wage her respects to Manipur’s women warriors. Nupi Lal refers to 2 women-led uprisings (1904 and 1939) successful which Manipuri women resisted British assemblage policies and asserted their rights and dignity.
The President is besides scheduled to question to Senapati district, bordering Nagaland, to code a nationalist gathering and inaugurate assorted improvement projects for the district.
Hours earlier her arrival, Meitei groups Coordinating Committee connected Manipur Integrity (COCOMI) and Arambai Tenggol drew Ms. Murmu’s attraction to the plight of the internally displaced persons (IDPs) scattered crossed the alleviation camps.
The COCOMI urged her to instrumentality steadfast steps to support the Constitutional rights of the radical successful Manipur. Its convenor, Khuraijam Athouba, pointed retired that thousands of radical continued to unrecorded arsenic refugees successful their ain State.
Recalling the government’s committedness that the IDPs would beryllium resettled successful 3 phases by December, helium noted the deficiency of advancement successful this regard.
The Arambai Tenggol hoped that the President’s beingness successful Manipur would enactment the spotlight connected the hardships being endured by the IDPs.
Ms. Murmu’s circuit comes 3 months aft Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Manipur connected September 13 for the archetypal clip since the taste unit broke retired successful May 2023, claiming much than 260 lives and displacing astir 62,000 people.
