More than 140 days after mobile Internet was suspended in violence-hit Manipur, the services were restored on Saturday. An order by the government said that the incidents of violence have gone down compared to the initial days and “law and order has improved in the State.”
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-ruled State witnessed the longest ever Internet shut down this year after Jammu and Kashmir, which saw communication blockade for 552 days, in wake of the reading down of its special status under Article 370 of the constitution.
Ethnic violence erupted in Manipur on May 3 between the tribal Kuki-Zo and the Meitei community after a tribal solidarity march to protest a High Court order directing the State government to consider including the Meitei community in the Scheduled Tribe list, turned violent.
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