Daijiworld Media Network - Imphal

Imphal, Nov 8: The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has turned down the Kuki-Zo community’s demand for the creation of Union Territories with Legislatures in Manipur, according to tribal organisations that attended recent peace talks in New Delhi.

Representatives of the Kuki National Organisation (KNO) and United People’s Front (UPF), both umbrella bodies of Kuki-Zo armed groups under the Suspension of Operation (SoO) pact, met MHA officials on November 6–7. The discussions focused primarily on their long-standing demand for separate administrative status in the wake of ongoing ethnic tensions in Manipur.

In a joint statement, the KNO and UPF said A.K. Mishra, Adviser for the Northeast at the MHA, conveyed that while the Centre was “sensitive to the Kuki

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