PM Modi has arrived in Manipur for his first visit since ethnic violence erupted in the state in may 2023 the visit comes as both kuki and meitei community have laid out clear and often opposed demands.
The KUKI – ZO community is primarily demanding a Separate administration in the form of the union territory with its own legislature they argue that this separation is necessary for their peace security and survival following conflict KUKI group has also applied to the prime minister to acknowledge the deep rooted Discrimination they have endured.
On the other hand the Meitei community through Organization like COCOMI’s is demanding a (NRC) NATIONAL REGISTRATER OF CITIZENS. They believed in essential to identify and deport undocumented immigrants which they see as a course of demographic imbalance and a threat to the state’s social and political balance meitei groups also want the free movement of all manipuris across the state to be restored and for displaced people to be resettled.