India, May 26 -- Manipur governor Ajay Kumar Bhalla on Monday took a chopper from Imphal airport to reach Raj Bhavan about 6km away, after hundreds of people formed a human chain to protest the removal of "Manipur" from a state transport bus.

Officials said the governor reached the airport from Delhi on Monday and took an army chopper to the historic Kangla Fort 300 metres from the Raj Bhavan in view of the protests.

The protests, spearheaded by the Coordinating Committee on Manipur Integrity (COCOMI), a prominent civil society coalition, saw protesters, including students form a human chain along Tiddim Road from the airport's departure gate to Keishampat Junction.

The demonstration is part of a wider state-wide agitation led by COCOM...