Imphal: Militancy-related violence in northeastern states barring Assam and Manipur was subsiding, Union Home Minister P Chidambaram said today and appealed to all rebels to come forward for talks.
The Centre, he said, was working for solving problems of the northeastern states and stressed that peace was necessary for good governance.
Reiterating his call to militants, he told civil society representatives in interior Churanchandpur in Manipur that development in all fields would suffer if there was no peace.
Winding up his two-day visit, he said there was not much militancy-related violence in the state this year, but kidnapping of officials for ransom, extortion and crime against non-Manipuris by rebels were still continuing.
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