IMPHAL, Feb 9: Manipur Chief Minister N. Biren Singh officially submitted his resignation to Governor Ajay Kumar Bhalla at the Raj Bhawan in Imphal on Sunday evening.
The resignation letter stated, “I Nongthombam Biren Singh, Chief Minister of Manipur, am submitting my resignation herewith. It has been an honor to serve the people of Manipur thus far. I am extremely grateful to the Central government for timely actions, interventions, developmental work, and implementation of various projects for safeguarding the interest of every single Manipuri.”
My sincere request to the Central government through your good office is to continue with the same. I take the opportunity to enumerate the most important ones of them:
1. To maintain the territorial integrity of Manipur which has a rich and diverse civilizational history over thousands of years.
2. To crack down on border infiltration and to formulate policy for the deportation of the illegal immigrants.
3. To continue the fight against drugs and narco terrorism.
4. To continue the stringent and fool-proof revised mechanism of FMR with the biometric being stringently applied.
5. Time bound and faster border which is underway.
Kindly, accept my resignation and oblige.”
Meanwhile, the Governor accepted the resignation of the Chief Minister along with his Council of Ministers but requested Singh to continue in office until alternative arrangements are made. The Chief Minister was accompanied by some Ministers, MLAs and BJP State President.
