“Assam Rifles’ Withdrawal from Manipur Sparks Kuki Protests and Safety Considerations | Imphal Information

GUWAHATI: Amid protests by Manipur’s Kukis in opposition to the withdrawal of two “non-partisan” Assam Rifles (AR) battalions from two delicate safety buffer zones within the strife-torn state, Military has beneficial 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 group fears the transfer to withdraw a “non-partisan pressure 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 may relieve two different battalions. These relieved battalions might be redeployed in J&Okay. Assam Rifles, regardless of being a paramilitary pressure, 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 mentioned. The AR battalions are anticipated at hand over their areas of duty inside one week of the CRPF battalions’ arrival, the supply added.
“It has been beneficial 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 mentioned. Moreover, the 2 CRPF battalions will bear three months of on-the-job coaching “in view of the prevailing safety scenario within the state”.
Moreover, like different infantry battalions inducted into Manipur, they may bear 4 weeks of pre-induction coaching on the Counter-Insurgency and Jungle Warfare College in Vairengte, Mizoram, suggesting their involvement in counter-insurgency operations within the state.