Manipur Police personnel stand guard as protesters try to dam vehicular motion throughout a 24-hour common strike known as by the Marketing campaign for Simply and Truthful Delimitation (JFD), demanding the updation of NRC earlier than the Census, in Imphal on September 1, 2026.
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Unknown extremists attacked 4 Liangmai Naga villages alongside the Imphal-Tamenglong Street in Manipur’s Kangpokpi district on Tuesday (September 1, 2026), lower than 24 hours after three Kuki villagers have been killed within the neighborhood.
The Ukhrul-headquartered Working Committee of the Tangkhul Naga Lengthy (TNL), the neighborhood’s apex physique, claimed that the Kuki Nationwide Entrance-Presidential (KNF-P) carried out the assaults in collusion with the Kuki Nationwide Military (KNA).
Based on the TNL, the assailants shot at and critically injured Luithuibou Newmai, the pastor of Tapon village, and torched a number of homes within the affected villages until early afternoon.
“The coordinated armed assaults on 4 Naga villages have been carried out by the KNF-P and KRA cadres led by Jangboi Kipgen, who can be the house secretary of the United Folks’s Entrance, an umbrella organisation of Kuki-Zo militant teams working in Manipur,” the TNL mentioned in an announcement.
Noting that these Kuki teams have been beneath the Suspension of Operation (SoO) settlement with the Centre, the TNL mentioned the Liangmai Nagas have been beneath fixed assault from Kuki extremists for the previous few months.
“The modus operandi of the migrant Kukis unleashing repetitive armed offensives throughout the jurisdiction of Kangpokpi (district) is clearly meant to impact a demographic change. The landless Kukis are utilising and using this sample of assaults to determine their hegemony over the ancestral land of the Nagas by uprooting us from our properties,” the TNL mentioned.
The TNL condemned the assaults and criticised the federal government for its alleged incapacity to rein within the Kuki teams beneath the SoO settlement.
Strike disrupts regular life
In the meantime, regular life was affected throughout massive swathes of Manipur—particularly the 5 districts of Imphal Valley—on Tuesday (September 1, 2026) after the Marketing campaign for Justice and Truthful Delimitation (JFD) enforced a 24-hour common strike regardless of the Centre having deferred the Census train within the State on Monday (August 31, 2026).
The JFD needs the federal government to organize the Nationwide Register of Residents (NRC) within the State earlier than conducting the Census.
The shutdown affected enterprise institutions, public transport, and vehicular motion in a number of areas, with protesters blocking roads and stopping the motion of autos, besides these offering important and emergency companies.
The Manipur authorities had appealed to the JFD to withdraw the shutdown after the Centre introduced the deferment of the Census train. The organisation proceeded with the strike, sustaining that the Registrar Basic of India ought to make the deferment formal by a gazette notification.
Revealed – September 01, 2026 07:14 pm IST
