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The Hindu
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National
Abhinay Lakshman, Vijaita Singh

Mizoram MP urges PM to send ‘joint parliamentary team’ to violence-hit Manipur

As violence-hit Manipur largely remained incident-free on May 9, a Rajya Sabha member from Mizoram wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi that a ‘joint parliamentary team’ which includes Christian members of Parliament be constituted and sent to the affected areas to carry out an independent investigation.

Meanwhile, two civil society groups of Manipuri people, representing the State’s Meitei community, on Tuesday held a press conference in New Delhi, saying that the narrative around the violence that broke out in Manipur needed to be corrected from one that solely blamed Meitei people for it. 

Also read: Explained | What is behind Manipur’s widespread unrest? 

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