Rahul Gandhi visits relief camps in Manipur's Moirang

On the second day of his Manipur visit on June 30, 2023, Congress leader Rahul Gandh visitstwo relief camps at Moirang in Bishnupur district

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday, June 30, 2023 visited two relief camps at Moirang in Manipur’s Bishnupur district, party officials said.

Mr. Gandhi, who reached Moirang by a chopper from Imphal around 9.30 am, met a number of people who were affected by the recent ethnic clashes.

Party sources said both the camps that Mr. Gandhi visited shelter around 1,000 people.

Mr. Gandhi was accompanied by former Manipur chief minister Okram Ibobi Singh, party general secretary (organisation) KC Venugopal, PCC president Keisham Meghachandra Singh and former MP Ajay Kumar.

Moirang is historically known as the town where the INA hoisted the Indian tricolour in 1944.

Mr. Gandhi will also meet intellectuals and civil society representatives in Imphal during the day, they said.

On June 29, he had visited relief camps in Churachandpur, one of the worst affected towns in the ethnic rioting, which has plagued the northeastern state for the last two months.