President’s Rule was imposed in violence-hit Manipur on February 13 following the resignation of Chief Minister N Biren Singh. An umbrella body of civil society organisations of Manipur’s valley-dominant Meitei community has requested Governor Ajay Kumar Bhalla to work for restoring an elected government within a month.Representatives of the Coordinating Committee on Manipur Integrity (COCOMI) met Governor Bhalla at the Raj Bhavan in the state capital Imphal. They submitted a 13-point memorandum that detailed steps the Governor may consider to bring peace to Manipur. The group alleged one of the root causes of the Manipur crisis is the involvement of what it called \”Chin-Kuki narco-terrorist separatist groups\” that have been working \”in a manner similar to the Zomi Revolutionary Army (ZRA) in Myanmar\” It also alleged that the leadership of these groups, including UPF leader Thanglianpau Guite (former MP in Myanmar) and KNO leader PS Haokip (originally from Somra Track, Myanmar), underscores their foreign origins.
