From a violent one-year conflict and directions by community leaders against contesting, to special voting booths for the thousands of internally displaced people and an absent election buzz. The Indian Express travels to Imphal and Churachandpur ahead of voting, which starts on April 19, to find out how the state’s protracted crisis frames the challenge this Lok Sabha election
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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).
The Manipur government has shifted the last of 10 Kuki families comprising 24 members from Imphal s New Lambulane area where they had been living for decades and did not move elsewhere even after the ethnic violence broke out in Manipur four months ago.