The CEO office said it received clarification from the Home and Finance department that an amount of Rs 15.703 crore was released as a "backlog monthly stipend" for SoO groups under KNO and UPF for the months of October 2020 to September 202l.
Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Saturday reiterated that not paying government salaries but making payments to banned militant groups by the BJP state government in Manipur is in complete violation of the ECI moral code of conduct, and it murdered elections in 11 seats of the Manipur Legislative Assembly 2022.