Guwahati/New Delhi, June 5 -- The opposition Indian National Congress won both parliamentary seats in the restive northeastern state of Manipur, defeating the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its ally, the Naga People's Front (NPF), amid ongoing ethnic violence.

In the Inner Manipur constituency, Congress candidate Angomcha Bimol Akoijam, a professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University, defeated BJP's T Basanta Kumar Singh, the state education minister, by 109,801votes.

Congress's Alfred Kanngam Arthur, a former state legislator, won the Outer Manipur seat, reserved for tribal communities, beating NPF's Kachui Timothy Zimik, a retired revenue officer, by 85,418votes.

The BJP had won the Inner Manipur seat in 2019, while the NPF secur...