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Eight key office bearers of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Jiribam Mandal in Manipur have submitted their resignations as the situation remains tense in the district following fresh incidents of violence. The members have expressed deep concern over the "unwelcome and helpless situation" prevailing in Jiribam and Manipur as a whole in their joint resignation letter to the state BJP leadership. The mass resignation was given by — K.
Jadu Singh - President, Mutum Hemanta Singh - General Secretary, P. Biramani Singh - General Secretary (Organisation), Mutum Brojendro Singh - Executive Member, Th. Meghajit Singh - Executive Member, L.
Chaoba Singh - Executive Member among two others. Earlier in the day, the Centre has decided to send an additional 50 CAPF companies comprising more than 5,000 personnel to Manipur, PTI reported. This came after the Home Ministry rushed 20 additional CAPF companies, 15 from the CRPF and five from the BSF, to the state following after violence broke out in Jiribam district and spread to other places.
The situation in the state, which has been reeling from ethnic strife since May 2023, has been volatile following protests and violence after the recovery of bodies of women and children. Irate mobs set fire to the residences of three more BJP legislators, one of whom is a senior minister, and a Congress MLA in various districts of Imphal Valley on November 16 night even as security forces foiled an attempt by agitators to storm the ancestral residence of Chief Minister N Biren Singh. More than 220 people have been killed and thousands rendered homeless in ethnic violence between Imphal Valley-based Meiteis and adjoining hills-based Kuki-Zo groups since May last year.
It started after a 'Tribal Solidarity March' was organised in the hill districts to protest against the Meitei community's demand for Scheduled Tribe (ST) status. The ethnically diverse Jiribam, which was largely untouched by the clashes, witnessed violence after the mutilated body of a farmer was found in a field in June this year..
