The groups which were declared banned for five years were Peoples' Liberation Army generally known as PLA, and its political wing, the Revolutionary Peoples' Front (RPF), the United National Liberation Front (UNLF) and its armed wing Manipur Peoples' Army (MPA).
Manipur was finally rising from the ashes of insurgency. But insurgent groups are now back. Lack of political negotiation and inaction by the Centre left the gates of the state unmanned