Manipur, 26/6: Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh said that Union Home Minister Amit Shah has expressed concern over the changing nature of violence in the northeastern state. The union home minister is reportedly concerned over the shifting of violence and civil unrest from peripheral areas to districts in the Imphal valley.
The changing nature of violence from exchange of fire in the peripheral areas to the civil unrest in the valley districts has become a matter of concern for Amit Shah ji,” the chief minister told reporters here after his return from New Delhi late on Sunday night. Singh briefed Shah in New Delhi about the “evolving situation” in Manipur and said the state and central governments have been able to control the violence to a “great extent”.