{"id":231846,"date":"2023-12-31T00:13:05","date_gmt":"2023-12-30T18:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=231846"},"modified":"2023-12-31T00:13:05","modified_gmt":"2023-12-30T18:43:05","slug":"evil-elements-trying-to-disturb-peace-manipur-cm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/12\/31\/evil-elements-trying-to-disturb-peace-manipur-cm\/","title":{"rendered":"Evil elements trying to disturb peace: Manipur CM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>IMPHAL, 30 Dec:<\/strong> Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh on Saturday appealed to all sections of society to shun violence and engage in dialogue to restore peace in the state.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He condemned the killing of a village guard by unidentified individuals in Kadangband in Imphal West district, stating that &#8220;evil elements are attempting to disrupt peace.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Addressing a press conference at the CM&#8217;s secretariat, Singh said, &#8220;Let&#8217;s abandon violence, come to the negotiating table, and initiate a dialogue to restore normalcy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He mentioned that investigations are ongoing and security forces have begun combing operations to apprehend the killers of the village guard.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The CM assured that civil society organisations and the government machinery are working towards peace in both the hills and the valley areas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Unidentified individuals killed a village guard, identified as Jamesbond Ningombam, in Kadangband at around 3:30 am.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Police said that suspected militants from a nearby hill were responsible for the attack.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ningombam&#8217;s body was taken to the Regional Institute of Medical Sciences for postmortem examination.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kadangband, located on the outskirts of Imphal West district, shares border with Kangpokpi district, which has experienced continuous violence since the outbreak of ethnic strife on 3 May. (PTI)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IMPHAL, 30 Dec: Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh on Saturday appealed to all sections of society to shun violence and engage in dialogue to restore peace in the state. He condemned the killing of a village guard by unidentified individuals in Kadangband in Imphal West district, stating that &#8220;evil elements are attempting to disrupt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-231846","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-north-east"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}