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Imphal:With Prime Minister Narendra Modi as its face, and grand proclamations a trillion-dollar economy, over 100 unicorns, 1 lakh start-ups, and a shining new India as its message, the Bharatiya Janata Partys (BJP) electoral campaign in Manipur appears, at first glance, indistinguishable from its outreach elsewhere...
Portraits of Modi, with his resolute gaze staring down at passers-by, hang every few meters, like in every other part of poll-bound India touched by the BJPs footprint..
Over the past four months, Singh has been holding interactive sessions with large groups of people be it Meira Paibis or womens groups or youths at his official residence to calm tempers and allay misgivings about the Centres position on the Manipur crisis..
ThePrint sat in on one such closed-door session that Singh held Friday with people all of whom were made to deposit their mobile phones at the entrance from the Sugnu town of Kakching district that shares a border with the Kuki-majority Churachandpur, where violence broke out on 3 May last year before spreading across the state...
Occasionally, audio visual slides were played on the screen, documenting a range of issues from Singhs war on drugs and Centres directions to identify illegal immigrants from Myanmar, to security arrangements made to protect people, and weaning cultivators away from poppy to other productive sources of farming...
