IMPHAL, July 22 -- Forty-six insurgents of the banned Kangleipak Communist Party (People's War Group) surrendered before security forces in Manipur's Imphal on Tuesday, handing over 28 weapons, ammunition and other war-like stores under the Centre's rehabilitation programme, the ministry of defence said in a statement. The cadres surrendered before chief minister Yumnam Khemchand Singh under the Revised Scheme for Surrender-cum-Rehabilitation of Militants in the North Eastern States, 2018. Addressing the "homecoming ceremony" at the headquarters of the Inspector General Assam Rifles (South) in Imphal's Mantripukhri, Singh said it was a "significant step towards lasting peace and stability" and urged the surrendered militants to contribute to the state's progress. "Gun culture can never build a good society. Violence cannot provide lasting solutions to any problem. Peace, dialogue, mutual trust and cooperation are the only ways to secure a better future for our state," the chief minister said. htc...