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Founded | 2020[1] |
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Type | Meitei organisation |
Headquarters | Imphal |
Area served | Imphal Valley, Manipur, India |
Head | Kourounganba Khuman[2] |
Volunteers | 50,000[3]–60,000[4] |
Arambai Tenggol (Meitei for "dart wielding cavalry")[5] is a Meitei activist organisation in the Indian state of Manipur, often described as a radical organisation,[6][7] or as a radicalised armed militia.[8] It is also a revivalist organisation that aims to reestablish the pre-Hindu, native Sanamahi religion among the Meiteis.[9] It enjoys the patronage of Manipur's titular king and parliamentarian Leishemba Sanajaoba as well as the chief minister N. Biren Singh.[10] During the 2023–2024 Manipur violence, members of the Kuki-Zo community blamed it for having carried out deadly attacks against them.[11][12] In January 2024, the organisation demonstrated its influence by summoning all the elected Meitei legislators of the state for a meeting to deliberate on the defence of Meiteis in the prevailing conflict.[13][14]
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was invoked but never defined (see the help page).Mobs led by Arambai Tenggol—a Meitei militia that enjoyed the patronage of senior Bharatiya Janata Party leaders, including the chief minister, Biren Singh, and Manipur's titular king and Rajya Sabha MP, Leishemba Sanajaoba—were scouring the city, looking for Kukis in passing cars, in houses and in hostels.
During a press conference on Wednesday, the Manipur Tribal Forum Delhi claimed Kuki-Zomi-Mizo-Hmar tribes have been subjected to unrelented ethnic cleansing carried out by Meitei radicalised extremist groups -- Arambai Tenggol and Meitei Leepun.