New Delhi, November 13: Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government on Tuesday extended the ban on eight insurgent groups of Manipur, including People's Liberation Army (PLA), for five more years for their continued involvement in unlawful and violent activities. The five-year ban on these groups lapsed recently, thus necessitating declaring them outlawed for a fresh spell of another five years. Manipur's Neroca Search For Victory over Real Kashmir.

The organisations banned under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act are (i) Peoples’ Liberation Army generally known as PLA and its political wing, (ii) Revolutionary Peoples’ Front (RPF), (iii) United National Liberation Front (UNLF) and its armed wing Manipur Peoples’ Army (MPA), (iv) Peoples’ Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak (PREPAK) and its armed wing, ‘Red Army’, (v) Kangleipak Communist Party (KCP) and its armed wing, also called ‘Red Army’, (vi) Kanglei Yaol Kanba Lup (KYKL), (vii) the Coordination Committee (CorCom) and (viii) Alliance for Socialist Unity Kangleipak (ASUK).

According to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), all these groups have openly declared their objectives of formation of an independent Manipur by secession from India, employing and engaging in armed means to achieve their goal besides attacking security forces, police and government employees.

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