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Guwahati, March 20: After a week long speculation N Biren Singh was unanimously elected as the new CM of Manipur in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislature party meeting held on Sunday.
On March 15, the caretaker Chief Minister N Biren and MLA Th Biswajit along with BJP Manipur Chief A Sharda Devi rushed to Delhi as the party discussed who would be Manipur's next Chief Minister.
Recently Union Ministers Nirmala Sitharaman and Kiren Rijiju were appointed as observers for Manipur for the election of the legislature leader in the state. Sitharaman, along with Rijiju, was in Imphal on Sunday to attend a meeting with the newly elected BJP MLAs in the state.
In the recently concluded elections, the BJP got an absolute majority with 32 seats of 60 member assembly while National People's Party (NPP), a coalition partner of the BJP in the previous government, became the second largest party with 7 seats. The opposition Congress and Naga People's Front secured 5 seats each. The Janata Dal (U) secured six, newly floated Kuki People's Alliance two seats while Independents candidates won three seats.
