India, Dec. 8 -- For the first time since ethnic violence engulfed Manipur in May 2023, a Meitei MLA and former Rural Development minister, Yumnam Khemchand Singh on Monday travelled to two Kuki villages in hill districts in a confidence building measure and to break the ice.

Traveling to Litan, a Kuki hamlet in Ukhrul district, bordering Myanmar, the BJP leader interacted with Kuki villagers and inquired about their life and hardship faced in the past two and half years.

Manipur has been rocked by Meitei-Kuki ethnic conflict with the violence claiming over 250 innocent lives and rendered thousands homeless. Over one lakh internally displaced people are still languishing in various relief camps across the state.

He visited a Kuki relie...