Thounaojam Shyamkumar Singh is a politician from

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. He was minister of forest, horticulture, soil conservation and the department of municipal administration, housing & urban development (2017-2020) in the Biren Singh-led coalition government.

Career

In 2002, he had contested the Manipur Legislative Assembly election as the

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candidate in the Andro constituency, finishing third with 4513 votes. In 2007 he was elected to the Legislative Assembly, as the

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candidate in the Andro constituency. Notably, he contested the elections whilst being in jail. He had been arrested in October 2006 at

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, and was accused of being a member of

Kanglei Yawol Kanna Lup Kanglei Yawol Kanna Lup (or Kanglei Yaol Kanba Lup, trans.: "the Organisation to save the revolutionary movement in Manipur") is a Meitei insurgent group that operates in the state of Manipur in India. It was formed in January 1994 by a facti ...

and working as a liaison between KYKL and the

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. In August 2007, he was elected Deputy Speaker of the Manipur Legislative Assembly. In January 2017, Khoirom Ranjeet, the leader of the banned

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, Poirei Meiti who was recently arrested for an extortion and kidnapping ring, was revealed to have links to Shayamkumar. One of the MLA's aides was said to have run the ring on behalf of Ranjeet, who is suspected of being involved in 11 different attacks on restaurants and hospitals in

. In 2017, he joined

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and was made Minister of forest, horticulture, soil conservation and the department of municipal administration, housing & urban development in the Biren Singh-led coalition government. In March 2020, Shyamkumar was disqualified as a legislator from the

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on the grounds of defection under the 10th schedule of the Constitution. A disqualification case against Shyamkumar was registered by the 15

MLA's which included T. N. Haokip, Md Fazur Rahim and K. Meghachandra. Shyamkumar was elected on

ticket but allegiance to the

soon after.

References

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