India, Dec. 26 -- Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator Yumnam Khemchand Singh on Friday reiterated that there was no other way to resolve the present ethnic crisis in Manipur except through peace and dialogue.

"The only way forward in Manipur today is peace and dialogue. Let us pray that this Christmas bring peace in the state," Khemchand Singh told newspersons on the sidelines of an all-community Christmas gathering organised by the Liangmei Nagas of Namdilong village in Imphal West district, bordering Kuki-dominated Kangpokpi district.

Khemchand is the first Meitei MLA to have recently visited two Kuki villages of Litan and Chassad in Ukhrul and Kamjong districts after May 2023 violence and met Kuki people who had been displaced. ...