2 Manipur MPs Meet With Meitei, Kuki Scholars In Delhi, Call For Peace
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The meeting was held at the Delhi home of Rajkumar Ranjan Singh, the Minister of State for External Affairs and Education and one of the two Lok Sabha MPs from Manipur
A group of intellectuals from Manipur's Meitei and Kuki communities met at the Delhi home of a Union Minister yesterday to discuss how to bring peace in the violence-hit northeast state, sources have told NDTV.
The meeting was held at the Delhi home of Rajkumar Ranjan Singh, the Minister of State for External Affairs and Education and one of the two Lok Sabha MPs from Manipur.
The other MP, Lorho S Pfoze, also participated at the meeting and agreed there is an urgent need for both the communities to work for peace, sources said.
"Ten intellectuals each from both the Meitei and the Kuki communities discussed how to bring peace and reconciliation in Manipur, and the way forward. They spoke about thousands of years of shared history, culture and civilisation and agreed no one wants to lose them," a person who attended the meeting said, asking not to be named.
