Amit Shah has reviewed the situation in Manipur and asked senior officials to take effective steps to prevent violence and maintain peace.

Shah held the meeting soon after he returned from Maharashtra after cancelling his election rallies there

Earlier in the day, Union Home Minister Amit Shah cancelled his poll rallies in Maharashtra and returned to New Delhi to hold a meeting on the Manipur issue. The fresh violence started on Saturday after three bodies of missing women and children were found.

Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday convened a high-level meeting with senior officials in the national capital to assess the security situation in Manipur. | OpIndia News

Home Minister Amit Shah reviews security in Manipur, directs officials to ensure peace amid ongoing ethnic strife.

A curfew was imposed in Imphal West and East after six people from Meitei groups, who were allegedly kidnapped by militants, were found dead. Internet was suspended in several districts as mobs attacked the homes of MLAs alson indulged in vandalism.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah has cancelled his election rallies in Maharashtra and is returning to Delhi due to the volatile situation in Manipur. The home minister is likely to hold a meeting to review the situation in the northeastern state, where irate mobs have set fire to the residences of several BJP and Congress legislators. The incidents follow a series of killings and abductions by militants in the state.