Manipur CM Biren Singh meets PM Modi in Delhi; apprises him about state govt's initiatives

Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh met Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday, April 18. Singh, who h led BJP to form an independent government in Manipur for first time in 2022, me his maiden visit to New Delhi after taking oath as Chief Minister for a second consecutive term. 

In meeting, Chief Minister Singh apprised PM Modi of his government’s initiatives to develop state. Describing meeting, Manipur CM took to Twitter and mentioned that he h informed PM Modi of steps taken by his government to sustain peace and development in state. He also noted that his government’s priority was to ericate corruption from state and post that he will be working on fighting menace of drug diction.

'Priority to fight drugs & corruption'

"Called on PM Narendra Modi Ji today and I h privilege to discuss various initiatives that state government has taken up to sustain peace and development in Manipur. Also, apprised him of steps that we have taken up to fight drugs and corruption in state," Manipur Chief Minister informed in a tweet.

"Next task would be to wash out all drugs-related matter from state and thirdly, would try to see that all insurgents operating in state are brought to negotiating table and political dialogues are held with m," Manipur Chief Minister ded.

This comes after Union Home Ministry in a significant decision reduced areas under AFSPA jurisdiction in norastern states. Union government removed Armed Forces Special Power Act from 36 districts across 4 North-Eastern states (Arunachal Presh, Assam, Nagaland, Manipur) on March 31. In Manipur, AFSPA was removed from jurisdiction of 15 police stations in six districts.

In Manipur, AFSPA has been repealed in Imphal, Lamphel, City, Singjamei, Sekmai, Lamsang, Patsoi, Porompat, Heingang, Lamlai, Irilbun, Thoubal, Bishnupur, Kakchin, and Jiribam police stations.

Notably, in Manipur Election 2022, ruling BJP secured a massive victory by winning 32 seats out of a total of 60. results were announced on Thursday, March 10 and projected that vote share of saffron party h significantly shot up in state. This is second consecutive term of party in state. Out of all opposition parties, Congress confined its winning tally to 5; JDU secured 6 seats, while NPP won 7 and NPF won 5.

(Image: @NBirenSingh/Twitter)