Will India’s first sportsman CM Biren Singh deliver in Manipur?

Sunzu Bachaspatimayum Manipur’s Nongthombam Biren Singh is the country’s first sportsperson to become a Chief Minister of a state. The former national footballer, who is the 12th Chief Minister of Manipur, confessed that he considered the 2017 elections to be the ‘final football match’ of his political career, which took off in 2002. For Biren, […]

Sunzu Bachaspatimayum Manipur’s Nongthombam Biren Singh is the country’s first sportsperson to become a Chief Minister of a state. The former national footballer, who is the 12th Chief Minister of Manipur, confessed that he considered the 2017 elections to be the ‘final football match’ of his political career, which took off in 2002. For Biren, […]

Read more / Original news source: http://kanglaonline.com/2017/03/will-indias-first-sportsman-cm-biren-singh-deliver-in-manipur/

A former Congress troubleshooter is now CM of a wobbly BJP government in Manipur

By Bimol Akoijam “Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable,” so goes a saying attributed to Otto von Bismarck. In more ways than one, N Biren Singh stands as testimony to that maxim when he was sworn in as the first BJP chief minister of Manipur on March 15. In succeeding his mentor […]

By Bimol Akoijam “Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable,” so goes a saying attributed to Otto von Bismarck. In more ways than one, N Biren Singh stands as testimony to that maxim when he was sworn in as the first BJP chief minister of Manipur on March 15. In succeeding his mentor […]

Read more / Original news source: http://kanglaonline.com/2017/03/a-former-congress-troubleshooter-is-now-cm-of-a-wobbly-bjp-government-in-manipur/