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
Groups, parties representing community ask members to stay away, try to find a 'consensus candidate', say don't want it to be come a 'Naga vs Kuki' fight
The congress has a point and it has been delivered. in asking the three mps of manipur to speak out on the ongoing crisis on the floor of parliament, the oldest political party in the country has effectively delivered the statement that in the more than 1