2 Assam Rifles battalions moved out of Manipur ignoring tribals’ protests | Guwahati Information

GUWAHATI: Amid protests by Manipur’s Kukis towards the withdrawal of two “non-partisan” Assam Rifles (AR) battalions from two delicate safety buffer zones within the strife-torn state, Military has advisable putting the incoming CRPF battalions below the command and management of AR’s sector headquarters.
Kuki MLAs have been a part of the protests to retain the AR troops.The neighborhood fears the transfer to withdraw a “non-partisan power like Assam Rifles” might result in a resurgence of violence.
Military has directed relocation of the 2 AR battalions from Manipur to Nagaland, the place they’ll relieve two different battalions. These relieved battalions will likely be redeployed in J&Okay. Assam Rifles, regardless of being a paramilitary power, has a twin management construction, with the Military overseeing operational management and residential ministry dealing with administrative supervision.
At present, the 2 Assam Rifles battalions are deployed in Manipur’s Kangvai alongside the Churachandpur-Bishnupur border, and Kangchup on the Kangpokpi-Imphal (East) inter-district borders.
The incoming CRPF battalions, comprising over 2,000 personnel, are being transferred from J&Okay and Telangana and are anticipated to imagine their new positions this month, a safety supply stated. The AR battalions are anticipated handy over their areas of duty inside one week of the CRPF battalions’ arrival, the supply added.
“It has been advisable that the command and management of the 2 CRPF battalions, relieving the AR battalions, is vested with the respective AR sector headquarters of IG (E) and IG (S), to make sure cohesion in operations in these delicate areas,” the supply stated. Moreover, the 2 CRPF battalions will endure three months of on-the-job coaching “in view of the prevailing safety state of affairs within the state”.
Moreover, like different infantry battalions inducted into Manipur, they’ll endure 4 weeks of pre-induction coaching on the Counter-Insurgency and Jungle Warfare Faculty in Vairengte, Mizoram, suggesting their involvement in counter-insurgency operations within the state.