Manipur Assembly Session Put On Hold After CM N Biren Singh's Resignation

Imphal: The Manipur Assembly Budget session has been announced suspended soon after Chief Minister N Biren Singh resigned from his post on Sunday. According to the officials, the assembly session will take place after the next Chief Minister will take over. Sources claimed that the new CM for Manipur is likely to be announced on Monday. 

The officials stated that the 7th session of the 12th Manipur Legislative Assembly, set to commence from February 10, has been declared "null and void" with immediate effect, according to a notice issued by Assembly Secretary K Meghajit Singh on Sunday.

"In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (1) of Article 174 of the Constitution of India, I, Ajay Kumar Bhalla, Governor of Manipur, hereby order that the previous directive to summon the 7th session of the 12th Manipur Legislative Assembly, which has yet to commence, is hereby declared null and void with immediate effect," the notice added. 

Earlier, in a sudden move, N Biren Singh resigned as the Manipur Chief Minister on Sunday following his meeting with Union Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP president JP Nadda today in Delhi.

Singh’s resignation comes following the announcement made by Manipur Congress President Keisham Meghachandra that his party will move a no-confidence motion against the state government in the upcoming Assembly session. As per several reports, nine MLAs had skipped a meeting that was called by Biren Singh at Imphal on Saturday. 

In his resignation letter to the Manipur Governor Ajay Bhalla, N Biren Singh listed five reasons for quitting the post. Biren Singh stated, “to maintain the territorial integrity of Manipur, to crack down on border infiltration, to continue the fight against drugs and narco-terrorism, to continue the stringent and fool-proof revised mechanism of Free Movement Regime and time-bound and faster border”.