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The Hindu
National
Rahul Karmakar

Quit seat and contest polls from another State, BJP legislator tells Manipur Kuki MLAs

A Manipur BJP legislator has asked the State’s 10 Kuki-Zo MLAs to resign from their Assembly seats and contest from another State if they continue to stick to the demand of a “separate administration” without working towards peace.

Rajkumar Imo Singh, one of the BJP’s Meitei MLAs, gave the “advice” to the Kuki-Zo MLAs, seven of them from the BJP, while reacting to their meeting with Mizoram Chief Minister Zoramthanga apparently to find a solution to the ongoing ethnic conflict in Manipur.

Manipur has virtually been partitioned on ethnic lines after the clashes between the Kuki-Zo and Meitei communities broke out on May 3, killing more than 160 people and displacing about 60,000.

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