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In February 2024, Union Home Minister Amit Shah announced that the Free Movement Regime (FMR) along the Myanmar border would be scrapped but there has neither been any notification by the Ministry of External Affairs in this regard nor any bilateral agreement with Myanmar so far. Former Manipur Chief Minister N. Biren Singh’s insistence is said to have led to the decision following complaints that unregulated movement of people from across the border was fuelling the ethnic conflict in his State. Mizoram and Nagaland opposed this decision, which has not yet been implemented on the ground. The FMR came into existence in 1968 as people on either side of the border have familial and ethnic ties. The territorial limit of free movement then was 40 km, which was reduced to 16 km in 2004, and add...

New Delhi: About two years after ethnic violence first broke out in Manipur, which the state has since failed to control, Biren Singh resigned from the position of chief minister Sunday. Singh flew to Delhi Saturday evening, just days before the state’s upcoming assembly session, to meet Home Minister Amit Shah, where he was asked to resign after a two hour-long meeting, sources in the government said. The seventh session of the 12th Manipur Legislative Assembly is scheduled to begin Monday. Show Full Article After flying back to Imphal, around 2 pm Sunday, Singh tendered his resignation to the newly appointed governor, Ajay Kumar Bhalla.“He was called by the home minister and after a two-hour long meeting, he was asked to resign,” a source told ThePrint. “The...

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