A fortnight after Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s visit to Manipur, the BJP leadership on June 10 sent Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma – the troubleshooter for any crisis the party faces in the northeast – for a series of meetings in Imphal.
Dr. Sarma met his Manipur counterpart Nongthombam Biren Singh and a group of MLAs, apart from the leaders of several Meitei and Naga groups, in an effort to work out a peace formula in the strife-torn State, where more than 100 people have been killed and 35,000 displaced since ethnic clashes broke out on May 3.
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