Team News Riveting
New Delhi, June 26
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday chaired a high-level meeting to take stock of prevailing situation in ethnic violence-hit Manipur.
The meeting was convened soon after the Prime Minister landed in the national capital after his two-nation (US and Egypt) visit. Before the meeting, Union Home Minister Amit Shah met the Prime Minister and briefed about the developments relating to Manipur.
Sources said the meeting presided over by the Prime Minister was attended by senior cabinet ministers, including Nirmala Sitharaman and Hardeep Puri besides Union Home Minister Shah. Senior officials of the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) and intelligence agencies were also present.
The meeting comes a day after Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh met Shah on Sunday and discussed the issue. Singh had said that the situation in the state was now under control and would improve soon.
Shah had emphasised the importance of peace in the entire Manipur during that meeting. Singh tweeted after their meeting that the home minister “assured that the central government will take all possible steps to bring normalcy in Manipur”.
Earlier, an all-party meeting on the Manipur violence was held on Saturday. The Opposition criticised the Prime Minister for travelling abroad while violence in Manipur continued.
