Amit Shah to address election rallies in Manipur, Tripura on April 14-15

April 11, 2024

New Delhi : Union Home Minister Amit Shah is likely to visit Manipur and Tripura next week to further intensify the ongoing Lok Sabha election campaign in the northeastern states, party sources said on Thursday.

BJP sources said that Amit Shah, one of the star campaigners of the ruling BJP, is likely to visit Manipur on April 14 and will address an election rally at the Hapta Kangjeibung ground in Imphal. Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh and other BJP leaders are also likely to address the gathering.

The detailed schedule of Amit Shah’s visit to Manipur is yet to be finalised.

Due to the ethnic strife, no political party has organised any kind of election rally in Manipur so far.

After violence broke out in Manipur on May 3, the Union Home Minister visited the state for four days from May 29 to June 1 last year and held a series of meetings with top officials, politicians, NGOs, before announcing a slew of measures to deal with the ethnic violence between the Meitei and Kuki-Zomi communities.

From Manipur, Shah will come to Tripura and address an election rally in northern Tripura’s Kumarghat on April 15.

Tripura state BJP spokesman Subrata Chakraborty said that the Kumarghat election rally would cover the Tripura East Lok Sabha seat, reserved for the tribals.

Elections in Manipur’s two Lok Sabha seats will be held in two phases.

The Inner Manipur seat will go to the polls in the first phase on April 19 along with some parts of the Outer Manipur constituency (15 assembly segments). The remaining parts of Outer Manipur (13 assembly segments) will vote in the second phase on April 26.