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Pramot Singh | |
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| Born | Manipur, India |
| Other names | M. Pramot Singh; Mayengbam Pramot Singh |
| Education | Bachelor's in clinical psychology, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda (1989 to 1991); Master's in clinical psychology, Gujarat University |
| Alma mater | Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda; Gujarat University |
| Occupations | Socio-political activist; chief of Meitei Leepun |
| Organization | Meitei Leepun |
| Known for | Leadership of Meitei Leepun; alleged incitement of violence during the 2023–2025 Manipur violence |
Criminal charges | Criminal conspiracy, promoting enmity between groups, intentional insult, public mischief and criminal intimidation (under the Indian Penal Code, registered July 2023); non-bailable arrest warrant issued October 2023 |
| Spouse | Radha Wangkheirakpam (m. 2000) |
Mayengbam Pramot Singh, commonly known as M. Pramot Singh or Pramot Singh, is a Meitei hindu nationalist from Manipur, India[1][2]. He is the founder and chief of Meitei Leepun, an organisation that he describes as a socio-cultural movement but that has been characterised by Human Rights Watch, the United Nations Human Rights Office, the Jamestown Foundation and a broad range of Indian and international journalists as an armed Meitei vigilante outfit operating with political patronage from the former state government of Manipur.[3]
Together with Arambai Tenggol, Meitei Leepun is identified in human rights reporting on the 2023–2025 Manipur violence as one of two principal Meitei non-state armed formations involved in mob attacks on Kuki-Zo civilians[4][5]. The two organisations are alleged to have led or participated in killings, the burning of villages and churches, the looting of state armouries, threats against human rights defenders, and acts of sexual violence against Kuki-Zo women.[3]
In the weeks immediately preceding the outbreak of violence on 3 May 2023, Singh, in his own recorded interviews and tweets, described the Kuki community as foreign, predicted that they would be wiped out, and warned that civil war was imminent[6]. He has also publicly acknowledged that Meitei Leepun trained licensed firearms holders. On 8 July 2023, the Manipur Police registered a First Information Report against him on charges of criminal conspiracy, promoting enmity between groups, intentional insult, public mischief and criminal intimidation under the Indian Penal Code.[7][8] In October 2023, after he had repeatedly failed to appear before the court, the Chief Judicial Magistrate at Churachandpur issued a non-bailable arrest warrant.[9] As of mid-2026, the warrant has not been publicly reported to have been executed, and Singh has continued to give interviews and issue statements from his office in Imphal.[6]
Singh has denied that Meitei Leepun bears organisational responsibility for any specific killings or sexual assaults, and has framed the criminal case against him as politically motivated and a response to his public defence of Meitei interests.[10] No public reporting indicates that he has been charged under India's Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act or other dedicated anti-terrorism legislation, although Human Rights Watch and other monitors have argued that Meitei Leepun's documented conduct meets the description of organised political violence and that the failure of the Indian authorities to investigate it reflects an environment of impunity.[3]
Early life and education
[edit]Reliable biographical information on Singh's early life is sparse, and he has himself encouraged this opacity in interviews.[11] The most substantial profile published in the mainstream Indian press, in The Hindu in July 2023, records that he studied clinical psychology at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda in Vadodara from 1989 to 1991 and then obtained a master's degree in clinical psychology from Gujarat University in Ahmedabad. He married Radha Wangkheirakpam in 2000.[11]
Singh has stated in his own interviews that he subsequently worked in the non-governmental sector in Manipur, including on training and research projects and on what he has described as the first behavioural study of sex workers in the state. He has said that elders within the Meitei community approached him as he was leaving consulting work and asked him to take up Meitei issues full time, and that this was the origin of Meitei Leepun.[12] Independent verification of these accounts is limited, and The Hindu has noted that the public record between his graduation and the founding of Meitei Leepun in 2015 is essentially blank.[11]
Hindutva ideological formation
[edit]Singh has publicly attributed his political worldview to his years as a student member of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the student wing of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), during his higher studies in Gujarat. He has described himself as a "cultural nationalist" and has spoken in interviews about the influence of Hindutva thinking on his understanding of Meitei identity.[11][13] Journalists from The Quint, Scroll and other outlets who have visited his home and his office have noted that the walls display portraits of figures including the RSS ideologue M. S. Golwalkar, the then Chief Minister of Manipur N. Biren Singh, Mother Teresa and Mahatma Gandhi, a juxtaposition that Singh himself appears to curate.[14][2]
In an interview with Scroll he argued that India could only be strong if its Meitei and Hindu populations were strong, a formulation that the reporter Shoaib Daniyal placed within the broader vocabulary of the Sangh Parivar. In several interviews he has spoken of a shared anxiety, with the Arambai Tenggol, about the spread of Christianity among hill tribes and about what he describes as missionary penetration of the northeast.[2][13] Critics, including the Kuki Students Organisation and the Indigenous Tribal Leaders' Forum, have argued that this religious framing has helped to recast a complex ethnic conflict in Manipur as a confrontation between Hindus and Christians.[15][4]
Meitei Leepun
[edit]Singh founded Meitei Leepun in 2015. He has described it as a "movement" rather than a conventional organisation and has emphasised its cultural, ceremonial and welfare activities. The group first attracted significant statewide attention in 2021, when it organised an event at which children were filmed kneeling with their foreheads to the ground in obeisance to Chief Minister N. Biren Singh, an image that critics in the Manipur press treated as evidence of the cult-like character of the organisation and of the political proximity between Meitei Leepun and the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party.[2] Singh has himself written in social media posts that previous chief ministers received only a salute but that Biren Singh was an object of worship.[2]
The character of Meitei Leepun has been a point of sharp public dispute. By Singh's own account, it maintains an armed cadre, which he has justified by reference to a Meitei tradition of household-level military service and to a humanitarian role during natural disasters.[12] He has also acknowledged, on camera, that the organisation gives firearms training to civilians who hold gun licences.[8] Journalists who have interviewed him at his hilltop office at Meitei Langhol in Imphal have described an environment with armed guards, a loaded firearm within his reach, and a wireless set through which he gives instructions to followers.[10]
Independent observers have used substantially stronger language than Singh himself. The Jamestown Foundation in 2025 placed Meitei Leepun in a category of revivalist Meitei outfits alleged to have engaged in killings, sexual violence, looting and arson, while noting that no such Meitei outfit had been formally banned by the Government of India, in contrast with the proscribed valley insurgent groups such as the People's Liberation Army and the United National Liberation Front.[1] Human Rights Watch has described Meitei Leepun and Arambai Tenggol as "Meitei vigilante groups" that benefited from the protection of the BJP-led state administration of Chief Minister N. Biren Singh, and has noted that the founder of Meitei Leepun had been a member of an organisation affiliated with the RSS.[3] The Naga rebel group NSCN (Isak-Muivah) has characterised the wider Meitei armed mobilisation as militant and as hostile to Christians, an interpretation that Arambai Tenggol has rejected and that Singh has also publicly disputed.[16]
Hate speech and incitement
[edit]Singh's public statements in the months immediately before the outbreak of violence on 3 May 2023, and in the early weeks of the conflict itself, are the central evidentiary basis for the criminal case against him and have been quoted extensively in human rights reporting and in mainstream Indian media.
In an interview with the journalist Karan Thapar for The Wire, recorded on 6 June 2023, Singh described the Kuki community as outsiders and tenants, denied that they were indigenous to Manipur, and predicted that the entire Kuki population would be wiped out from a contested fifteen-kilometre stretch of territory where, he claimed, they had set up roadblocks and encroachments[17][18] . He also stated that civil war was imminent and that the Kukis would be unable to defend themselves if the central government did not intervene.[15]A short clip of the interview circulated widely on social media in late July 2023, alongside the viral video of the assault on two Kuki-Zo women at B. Phainom, prompting renewed accusations that Singh had openly called for the annihilation of Kuki Christians.[17] A separate interview given by him to a Delhi-based online publication on 7 June 2023 repeated the characterisation of Kukis as non-indigenous.[7]
The Kuki Students Organisation, in its formal complaint of 13 June 2023, drew additional attention to a tweet dated 28 April 2023, posted five days before the outbreak of the violence, in which Singh was alleged to have written that the moment had arrived to annihilate the community's "traditional rival on the hills" so that the Meitei could live peacefully. The KSO argued that this tweet, taken together with his on-camera statements, demonstrated a premeditated intention on the part of Meitei Leepun's leadership to attack the Kuki-Zo community.[8]
Singh has not retracted these statements. In subsequent interviews with The Week and Frontline he has continued to argue that the Kuki community has no political right to make territorial or constitutional demands, that the present violence is a defensive response by the indigenous Meitei, and that the wider conflict in Manipur should be understood as part of a global civilisational struggle.[10][13] Defenders within Meitei civil society have argued that his references to "outsiders" should be read as targeting recent migrants from Myanmar rather than Kuki-Zo Indian citizens, but this gloss is contradicted by the plain text of his interviews, in which he has explicitly characterised the Kuki community as a whole.[15][17]
Role in the 2023–2025 Manipur violence
[edit]The ethnic conflict in Manipur began on 3 May 2023 with clashes between Meitei and Kuki-Zo groups following a tribal solidarity march against the proposal to consider Scheduled Tribe status for the Meitei community. By 2025, more than 250 people had been killed and tens of thousands displaced, the state had been split into ethnic zones separated by buffer areas, Chief Minister N. Biren Singh had resigned, and the state had been brought under President's Rule.[3][19]
Mobilisation before the outbreak
[edit]On the evening of 2 May 2023, Meitei Leepun called for a counter-blockade of the Imphal valley in response to the planned tribal solidarity march. According to a security official quoted by Scroll, this counter-blockade represented the first direct confrontation between Meitei and Kuki communities and marked the transition of the conflict from a dispute between Kuki groups and the state to a full inter-communal mobilisation.[2] Meitei Leepun and Arambai Tenggol were both active participants in the Meitei counter-rallies of 3 May, which preceded and overlapped with the first wave of attacks on Kuki-Zo settlements.[3][2]
Mob violence against Kuki-Zo civilians
[edit]Kuki-Zo civil society organisations, including the Kuki Inpi Manipur, the Indigenous Tribal Leaders' Forum, the Kuki Students Organisation and the UNAU Tribal Women's Forum, have collectively named Meitei Leepun, alongside Arambai Tenggol, as a leading participant in the first weeks of mob violence. A consolidated ITLF report compiled in mid-2023 and circulated to international media documented incidents in early May in which mobs said by victims to have been led by Arambai Tenggol and Meitei Leepun looted and burned Kuki-Zo households and forced families to abandon their homes in the Imphal valley.[4] The same report attributed to Meitei Leepun and Arambai Tenggol jointly a 3 May attack on a Meitei household in Imphal that was sheltering twenty-two Kuki-Zo Christians, and named the two organisations together with "Meitei insurgents" as responsible for the killing and dismemberment of Thiandam Vaiphei, a forty-five-year-old Kuki-Zo widow from Kangpokpi district, on 6 May 2023.[4]
Human Rights Watch, in its March 2025 reassessment of the conflict, wrote that mobs which included members of Meitei Leepun and Arambai Tenggol had looted more than six thousand weapons from state armouries and police stations after the outbreak of the violence, of which approximately twenty-five hundred had been recovered. HRW also reported that Kuki-Zo communities had alleged that members of these groups had committed assaults, sexual violence and murder, and that the Manipur authorities had failed to investigate them or to take meaningful action.[3] The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) issued a statement condemning threats made against the human rights defender Babloo Loitongbam by Arambai Tenggol and Meitei Leepun, and called on the Government of India to ensure his protection and to hold the perpetrators accountable.[3]
The Jamestown Foundation, in its 2025 analysis, placed Meitei Leepun within a broader "revivalist cultural outfit" milieu that had moved from cultural assertion into mass killings, rapes, looting and arson, and warned that the impunity enjoyed by these organisations risked further destabilising the northeast.[1]
Armed activity and weapons
[edit]Singh's own statements remain the strongest available evidence regarding the armed character of Meitei Leepun. In the Karan Thapar interview he stated that Meitei Leepun was involved in giving firearms training to civilians who held arms licences, and that without urgent central intervention the Kukis would be unable to defend themselves in the coming war.[8][15] In the KRC Times interview he defended the existence of an armed cadre by reference to a household tradition of contributing fighters, while emphasising the organisation's relief and welfare work after May 2023.[12]
The mass looting of state armouries during the first weeks of the conflict, in which thousands of weapons including assault rifles such as AK series, SLR, INSAS and .303 rifles entered civilian circulation in the Imphal valley, is one of the most distinctive features of the Manipur conflict and has been documented in the CBI charge sheet for the B. Phainom case as well as in HRW reporting.[3][20] Although Singh has not been individually charged in relation to the looting, the mobs which carried out the attacks for which Meitei Leepun has been named are reported to have been armed with weapons from these armouries.[20][3]
The National Investigation Agency has, by 2026, filed charge sheets in several Manipur cases under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and related anti-terrorism legislation, including in connection with the January 2024 attack on an Indian Reserve Battalion post at Moreh and in connection with a 2022 plot attributed to the People's Liberation Army. These charge sheets have named Kuki insurgents and Meitei insurgents belonging to long-standing proscribed valley groups, but they have not, on the basis of publicly available reporting, named Singh or Meitei Leepun. The Jamestown Foundation has explicitly drawn attention to this asymmetry, treating the non-designation of Meitei outfits as a marker of the political patronage they enjoy.[1][21][22]
Allegations of sexual violence
[edit]The most widely reported case of sexual violence during the conflict, and the case that brought Meitei Leepun by name to international attention, concerned two Kuki-Zo women, aged twenty-one and forty-two, who were paraded naked through a Meitei mob and sexually assaulted at B. Phainom village in Kangpokpi district on 4 May 2023. The 21-year-old was gang-raped, according to the survivors' FIR[23][24]. A 26-second video of the incident surfaced on social media in late July 2023, prompting national and international condemnation and the transfer of the case from the Manipur Police to the Central Bureau of Investigation on the direction of the Supreme Court of India.[25]
The First Information Report filed by the survivors named approximately nine hundred to one thousand persons, identified as suspected members of several Meitei youth organisations, with Meitei Leepun explicitly listed alongside Kangleipak Kanba Lup, Arambai Tenggol, the World Meitei Council and the Schedule Tribe Demand Committee.[23] The CBI charge sheet, filed before the Special Judge at Guwahati in October 2023, named six accused individuals and one child in conflict with the law[24][23] . It also alleged that Manipur Police personnel, instead of driving the women to safety in their official Gypsy vehicle, had driven them towards the mob, an allegation that contributed to the suspension of the local station officer and that has been treated by human rights monitors as evidence of state complicity.[20]Singh was not named personally as an accused in the CBI charge sheet.[20][24]
The UNAU Tribal Women's Forum, in a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in August 2023, named Meitei Leepun and Arambai Tenggol as collectively responsible for the B. Phainom incident and for a separate incident on the same day in which two further Kuki-Zo women were said to have been raped and murdered at their workplace in Imphal.[5] Reports compiled by Christian and tribal civil society networks also attributed an abduction and sexual assault on a teenage Kuki-Zo survivor in Imphal on 15 May 2023 to Arambai Tenggol, while listing Meitei Leepun jointly responsible for a coordinated attack on tribal Christians on 3 May.[4]
Singh has rejected any institutional responsibility on the part of Meitei Leepun for these incidents. In interviews he has denied that Meitei Leepun has any operational connection with Arambai Tenggol, while acknowledging that the two organisations have shared political objectives[26][3]. Cases of sexual violence committed against Meitei women have also been registered during the conflict, including a Zero FIR filed by a thirty-seven-year-old Meitei woman in Bishnupur district alleging gang rape by Kuki perpetrators in Churachandpur on 3 May 2023, and these have been cited by Singh and other Meitei spokespersons as evidence that sexual violence in the conflict has had perpetrators and victims on both sides. Human rights monitors have responded that the documented scale, organisation and impunity of attacks on Kuki-Zo women, including the role of state actors in delivering victims to mobs, is qualitatively different.[27]
Political patronage and impunity
[edit]A persistent theme in human rights reporting on Meitei Leepun has been the question of state patronage. Human Rights Watch has written that the BJP-led Manipur state government under Chief Minister N. Biren Singh, which remained in power until his resignation and the imposition of President's Rule on 13 February 2025, demonstrated a pro-Meitei bias in its response to the violence, and that the state administration, including the police, allegedly protected vigilante groups such as Meitei Leepun and Arambai Tenggol.[3] HRW also recorded that one BJP lawmaker was affiliated with Arambai Tenggol, and that the founder of Meitei Leepun was a former member of an organisation affiliated with the RSS, framing this as part of a wider pattern of links between the ruling party and Meitei armed civil society.[3]
Scroll's June 2023 investigation reported that the Arambai Tenggol's own Facebook page displayed photographs of its members with Chief Minister Biren Singh and with the Rajya Sabha MP and titular king of Manipur Leishemba Sanajaoba, and that human rights monitors had described Meitei Leepun and Arambai Tenggol as having "injected militancy into Meitei civil society", a militancy that the state leadership chose to encourage rather than restrain.[2] Singh has himself written that previous chief ministers were saluted but that Biren Singh was an object of worship, language that has been treated by critics as evidence of the personal relationship between Meitei Leepun's chief and the executive of the state.[2]
The continuing failure to execute the non-bailable warrant of October 2023, the absence of any UAPA or other anti-terror prosecution against Meitei Leepun despite its documented role and the contrast with the proscription of Kuki and valley insurgent groups have all been cited in this context. The Jamestown Foundation in 2025 described Meitei Leepun, with Arambai Tenggol, as among the principal beneficiaries of a regime of de facto impunity established by political patronage from the ruling party.[1]
Legal proceedings
[edit]Indian Penal Code charges
[edit]On 13 June 2023, the Sadar Hills unit of the Kuki Students Organisation, led by President Satminthang Kipgen and General Secretary Thangtinlen Haokip, filed a written complaint at Kangpokpi police station seeking the registration of a criminal case against Singh. The complaint cited his interview with Karan Thapar and tweets attributed to him as proof of incitement to ethnic violence.[7][28]
The Manipur Police registered an FIR against him on 8 July 2023[29]. He was booked under sections 120B (criminal conspiracy), 153A (promoting enmity between groups on grounds of religion, race, place of birth, residence or language and acts prejudicial to the maintenance of harmony), 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace), 505 (statements conducing to public mischief), 506 (criminal intimidation) and 34 (acts done by several persons in furtherance of a common intention) of the Indian Penal Code.[7][8]
These charges fall within the framework of ordinary criminal law concerning hate speech, incitement and conspiracy, rather than within the anti-terror framework of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act or the National Investigation Agency Act. Critics of the prosecution have argued that the gravity of the conduct alleged, in light of the subsequent violence and the documented role of Meitei Leepun in it, would in another political context have justified prosecution under specific anti-terror legislation; the fact that this has not occurred has itself been cited as evidence of the protection afforded to Meitei Leepun by the political order in the state.[1][3]
Non-bailable arrest warrant
[edit]Singh did not respond to court notice and remained inaccessible to investigators in the months that followed. On the application of the prosecution, the court of the Chief Judicial Magistrate at Churachandpur issued a non-bailable arrest warrant against him in October 2023, with a return date of 9 November 2023, and directed the Superintendent of Police, Churachandpur, to ensure its execution. The prosecution submitted that Singh's residential address was at Nepali Basti, Chingmeirong, in Imphal West district, falling within the jurisdiction of Lamphel police station, and that his organisational office was at Sana Konung in Imphal East district.[9][18] By mid-2026, available public reporting did not indicate that the warrant had been executed. Singh has continued to give interviews from Imphal and to issue political statements in his capacity as chief of Meitei Leepun throughout this period.[6][10]
November 2023 attack on Singh
[edit]On the morning of 3 November 2023, at approximately 7:30 a.m., Singh's vehicle was attacked by two armed assailants travelling in a blue car at Langol, in the area between the northern gate of the National Institute of Technology, Manipur and Shija Hospital, within the jurisdiction of Lamphel police station in Imphal West. According to the Manipur Police, six rounds were fired at the parked vehicle, which sustained damage[30][31]. Neither Singh, then aged fifty-six, nor his driver was injured. A team from Lamphel police station and the Manipur Forensic Science Laboratory examined the scene, and a case was registered. The identity and affiliation of the attackers were not publicly established.[32]
Reception and assessment
[edit]The Indian-language and English-language press coverage of Singh has been sharply polarised[10][13][12]. Profiles in mainstream outlets such as The Hindu, Frontline, Scroll, The Quint[14][9] and The Wire have been broadly critical, treating him as an architect of an ethnonationalist mobilisation whose rhetoric directly preceded and arguably enabled the violence of May 2023.[11] Reporting in The Week has acknowledged that within sections of Meitei society he is regarded as a hero and a public intellectual, with a personal following organised around his hilltop compound.[10][13][2]
The independent human rights record on Meitei Leepun, drawn together in Human Rights Watch's March 2025 report and in the Jamestown Foundation's 2025 analysis, has placed Singh's organisation in the company of armed civil society formations associated with mass violence and state patronage, while specifically condemning the threats to human rights defenders and the impunity of the perpetrators of sexual violence during the conflict.[3][1] The OHCHR has joined this critical record through its statement on the threats to Babloo Loitongbam.[3] Kuki-Zo civil society has gone further and has called for Meitei Leepun to be proscribed.[5][4][15]
See also
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