00:00a news coming in from manipul after 12 months of president's rule it is finally ended it has been
00:12immediately with immediate effect it's been removed it's ended in manipul ministry of home
00:17affairs today issued a notification announcing the revocation of president's rule in manipul
00:23with immediate effect now on tuesday yk singh was elected as bjp legislative party leader and is
00:31expected to take the oath as the chief minister very soon yumnam kemchan singh is to be the manipul
00:39cm elect he is the new government the new government formation is expected to happen in manipul very soon
00:46so as the manipul which had been struggling with the ethnic strife
00:53is limping back to normalcy finally it seems it will be getting an elected government
00:59the bjp's mls have elected their leader and it is expected that the deputy leader deputy chief
01:08minister is going to be from the cookie community and it is expected that they will be taking oath
01:14very soon
01:15senior bharati janita party bjp leader and former state cabinet minister yumnam kemchan singh or yk singh
01:28has been chosen by his party for appointment as a new chief minister of manipul which has been under
01:34the president's rule for nearly a year now but the president's rule has now finally been revoked
01:39the post has been vacant ever since n bireen singh resigned on february 9 2025 amid a prolonged period
01:48of ethnic violence in the state just days later presidential rule was imposed in manipul
01:53manipul is set to get a new chief minister ending nearly a year of political uncertainty
02:04the bjp has named yumnam kem chand singh as its legislature party leader clearing the way for him
02:11to take over as the next chief minister a senior leader from the maithi community kem chand singh is
02:17a two-time mla singh ja mei elected in 2017 and again in 2022 he has served as speaker of the
02:24manipur assembly and was inducted into the cabinet after the 2022 polls handling key portfolios including
02:31rural development panchayatiraj and education rs is backed and considered for the top post even in
02:382022 he is also the first indian to earn a fifth dan belt in traditional taekwondo the bjp-led alliance
02:46has the numbers in the house the manipur assembly has 60 seats with the majority mark at 31 the bjp
02:53holds 32 seats with support from allies giving the ruling combine the numbers needed to form the
02:59government the leadership change follows the resignation of n biren singh on february 9th
03:042025 after months of pressure over the handling of the state's prolonged ethnic violence and the threat
03:11of a no-confidence motion four days later president's rule was imposed in the state
03:16manipur has been grappling with ethnic unrest since may 2023 when violence broke out between
03:24the methi community and kukizo travel groups the trigger was protests over a proposed move to grant
03:29scheduled tribe status to methi's spiraling into a wider conflict over land political representation
03:35and affirmative action the violence has left over 250 people dead and displaced nearly 60 000
03:43many of whom remain in relief camps with the bjp legislature party leader now in place all eyes
03:49are on whether the new leadership can move manipur towards stability after nearly two years of turmoil
03:56bureau report india today
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