Manipur, April 30 -- The 2024 Lok Sabha elections with regard to the Outer Manipur constituency would be remembered for several factors. The ongoing ethnic clashes and government apathy towards a meaningful intervention towards bringing a solution has led to voters from the Kuki-Zo fraternity abstaining from exercising their voting right in many areas and the absence of candidates from the Kuki-Zo fraternity amidconfusion in whether or not to propose candidates besides the possibility of sizeable division among Naga votes between the candidates.

It is against this backdrop that voting for the constituency was spread in two phases and repoll in six polling stations are being held on Tuesday on the basis of complaints of booth-rigging and ...