Election results 2024: Congress emerges victorious as Manipur votes out BJP and ally

Election results 2024: Manipur voters reject BJP, elect Congress in 2024 Lok Sabha elections amid ethnic conflict, tribal solidarity, and violence.

The people of Manipur voted out the BJP and its ally, the Naga People’s Front, from the Inner and Outer Manipur constituencies, respectively, leading to comfortable victories for the Congress candidates in these seats in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, which was held in the backdrop of the ongoing ethnic conflict between the Valley-based Meiteis and Hills-based Scheduled Tribe Kuki-Zo people.

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The Congress’s Alfred Kanngam Arthur won the Outer Manipur (ST) seat by a margin of over 83,000 votes. The party’s choice of fielding Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) professor A. Bimol Akoijam in the Inner Manipur seat paid-off handsomely, with Mr. Akoijam beating the BJP’s Th. Basantakumar Singh, a State Minister, with a margin of over 1.09 lakh votes.

While the Inner Manipur seat is dominated by voters from the Meitei community and comprises most of the Valley districts of the State, the Outer Manipur seat is divided among the Kuki-Zo tribal communities and the Naga tribes.

Following the results, apex bodies of Kuki-Zo tribes and civil society organisations like the Zo United and the Indigenous Tribal Leaders’ Forum (ITLF) called it a “positive” outcome.

Manipur voted in the first two phases of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, with all contesting parties being forced to address the ethnic conflict, which has so far killed over 220 people, including security personnel, injured thousands of others, and internally displaced over 50,000 people, for whom special polling booths were also set up in relief camps.

During campaigning in Inner Manipur, the BJP was caught between promising restoration of peace as a priority while also trying to find ways to position the N. Biren Singh government’s handling of the conflict positively.