NPP Withdraws Support from BJP Govt in Manipur as Violence Continues
Moneylife Digital Team 18 November 2024
Conrad K Sangma-led National People's Party (NPP) on Sunday withdrew support from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government in Manipur, saying that the state under Nongthombam Biren Singh as chief minister (CM) has 'completely failed' to resolve the crisis and restore normalcy in the state. Meanwhile, violence continues to rock Manipur as offices of the Congress party and BJP were ransacked in the hill district of Jiribam, where an unidentified body was found earlier in the day.
 
Mr Sangma, national president of NPP and CM of Meghalaya, in a letter to BJP president JP Nadda, says, "In the last few days, we have seen the situation further deteriorate where many more innocent lives have been lost. People in the state are going through immense suffering." 
 
"Keeping the current situation in mind, the NPP has decided to withdraw its support to the Biren Singh-led government in Manipur with immediate effect," he says.
 
 
NPP has seven MLAs in the 60-member Manipur Assembly. However, the party's decision to withdraw support will not have any impact on the Biren Singh government. In the Manipur Assembly, the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance and the North East Democratic Alliance enjoy absolute majority with the saffron party's 32 MLAs and support from five MLAs from the Naga People's Front (NPF) and six from Janata Dal (United) JD(U).
 
According to officials, an ancestral house of a member of the legislative assembly (MLA) from BJP was vandalised in Imphal Valley. In Jiribam, a building owned by Ashab Uddin, an independent legislator, was ransacked.
 
The incidents occurred a day after irate mobs set fire to the residences of three BJP MLAs, one of whom is a senior minister and a Congress MLA in various districts of Imphal Valley where an indefinite curfew has been clamped.
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