Imphal: The Lok Sabha on Wednesday (July 30) passed a statutory resolution to extend President’s Rule in Manipur for six more months.
Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai moved the statutory resolution to extend President’s Rule in Manipur for discussion in the Lok Sabha.
The Rajya Sabha on Thursday (July 31) is slated to take up the statutory resolution that seeks to extend President’s rule in Manipur.
Rai asserted that peace and normalcy were returning to the State and that it was necessary to extend President’s Rule to ensure this continued.
While replying to the discussion on the Statutory Resolution in Lok Sabha on Wednesday, Rai said that only one incident of violence with one death had been reported in the State in the last 8 months, and none in the last four months.
He added that since the imposition of President’s Rule in the State, over 2,500 weapons, 1,900 explosives, and 30,000 rounds of ammunition had been recovered.
“If the President’s Rule has to be extended by another six months, the statutory resolution has to be approved by both the Houses of Parliament,” Speaker Om Birla said.
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Manipur was placed under President’s Rule in February this year after the erstwhile Chief Minister N. Biren Singh stepped down, nearly two years after the ethnic conflict began in the State between the valley-based Meitei community and the hills-based Scheduled Tribe Kuki-Zo group of communities.
