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Amit Shah likely to visit Manipur in October for medical college event
Union Home Minister Amit Shah is likely to visit Manipur in the first week of October to lay the foundation stone of the proposed Senapati Medical College, the Chief Minister's Office said…
Union Home Minister Amit Shah is likely to visit Manipur in the first week of October to lay the foundation stone of the proposed Senapati Medical College, the Chief Minister's Office said on Wednesday. The visit was finalised during a meeting between Shah and Manipur Chief Minister Yumnam Khemchand Singh in New Delhi.
Shah assured the chief minister that the Centre would fulfil the aspirations of the people of Manipur. The medical college, to be set up in the Naga-inhabited Senapati hill district, aims to improve healthcare infrastructure and create jobs. This will be Shah's first visit to the state since April 2024 and comes as demands for updating the National Register of Citizens before the Census gain momentum. A delegation of civil society groups is also in Delhi pressing for citizenship verification ahead of the Census and delimitation.
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The visit places Shah at the centre of two parallel tracks: a development push in a restive hill district and a politically charged demand for NRC update before the Census. The Senapati medical college, approved in principle by the state cabinet, addresses a long-standing healthcare gap in a region that saw ethnic violence in 2023. The NRC-before-Census demand, pushed by legislators and civil society groups, ties directly to the next delimitation exercise, which the government has indicated will follow the 2021 Census. If the NRC is not updated first, non-citizens could be counted in the Census and affect constituency boundaries. Shah's itinerary, expected closer to October, will signal whether the Centre prioritises the development agenda or engages with the citizenship demand.
Source: assamtribune.com
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