NEW DELHI, Feb. 4 (Xinhua) -- India's federal government on Wednesday revoked the direct rule imposed in the restive northeastern state of Manipur in February last year, the state-run broadcaster All India Radio (AIR) said.
Yumnam Khemchand Singh, a Bharatiya Janata Party leader, took oath as the new chief minister of Manipur on Wednesday evening.
Earlier in the day, Khemchand Singh met the state's Governor Ajay Kumar Bhalla and staked a claim to form a new local government in the state.
Last year in February, the then chief minister N Biren Singh resigned, two years after deadly ethnic violence broke out in the northeastern state, which claimed 258 lives and displaced over 60,000. ■