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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Ashok Sharma

Opposition parties disrupt India's Parliament for 2nd day to protest ethnic violence in northeast

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Deadly ethnic clashes in India’s northeast rocked the country's Parliament for a second straight day Friday, with the opposition blocking proceedings and demanding the sacking of the top elected official of Manipur state, where more than 130 people have been killed since early May.

The official, Biren Singh, belongs to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist party.

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