Overview

• Modi is scheduled to lay foundation stones worth over ₹7,300 crore in Churachandpur and inaugurate projects exceeding ₹1,200 crore in Imphal.
• Mallikarjun Kharge labeled the trip a three-hour pit stop and a grave insult, criticizing plans for a roadshow instead of extended engagement with relief camps.
• Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said the prime minister waited two years to go to Manipur and argued he should have visited much earlier.
• Media reports say the prime minister will meet internally displaced people in Churachandpur and Imphal during his first visit since the ethnic clashes began.
• Kharge cited roughly 300 deaths, about 67,000 displaced and more than 1,500 injured, and accused the Centre of hiding failures under President’s Rule while Modi undertook numerous foreign trips.