BJP Yumnam Khemchand – Who is Yumnam Khemchand New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party leader Yumnam Khemchand is going to become the Chief Minister of Manipur after being elected the leader of the legislature party on Tuesday. Meanwhile, Nemcha Kipgen is likely to become the Deputy Chief Minister of Manipur, news agency PTI reported quoting sources.

Khemchand belongs to the Meitei community, Kipgen comes from the Kuki community. This has come after the meeting of BJP MLAs at the party headquarters. Delhi.

On February 9 last year, Manipur’s then Chief Minister N Biren Singh had tendered his resignation from the top post amid the violence and caste conflict that has been going on in the state for almost three years. Meghalaya CM Conrad K Sangma is reportedly facing the threat of a no-confidence motion against his government after his NPP withdrew support to the BJP-led government in Manipur, saying CM N Biren Singh has “completely failed” to stop the state from sliding towards continuous decline.

Violence since ethnic conflict. In the Manipur Assembly, the BJP has 37 MLAs, supported by its ally Naga People’s Front (5) and one JDU MLA.

The opposition has 16 seats, including the National People’s Party (6), Congress (5), independents (3) and two seats from the KPA, which withdrew its support to the Byrne government in August 2023. Khemchand is a senior party leader who has served as Assembly Speaker and cabinet minister in Biren Singh’s cabinet.

He has been elected from Singjamei constituency in the Manipur Legislative Assembly elections in 2017 and 2022. He was the Speaker of the Manipur Legislative Assembly from 2017 to 2022.

In 2022, he was appointed as a Cabinet Minister, holding the portfolios of Municipal Administration, Housing Development (MAHUD) Department, Rural Development and Panchayati Raj and Education Department.