Narengbam Samarjit, external affairs minister in the self-declared Manipur State Council, said the exiled government will push for recognition at the UN
Manipur has a strong ethnic mix and its Meitei, Naga, Kuki and Pangal communities are all deeply committed to preserving their own cultural autonomy. Its people have also always tended to look eastwards in their search for cultural links.
"We will run the de jure exiled government here ... from today onwards," he told reporters in London after a declaration of independence first announced in Manipur in 2012 was read aloud. The region, encircled by five other countries and connected to the rest of India by a sliver of land arching over Bangladesh, has been wracked by armed conflict and instability.
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