New Delhi: In the backdrop of tribal groups from besieged Manipur getting no appointment with Union home minister Amit Shah over the scrapping of the Free-Movement Regime with Myanmar, Shah has tweeted that his ministry has recommended the immediate suspension of the FMR.Amit Shah posted on X that the home ministry has recommended the “immediate suspension of Free Movement Regime along the Myanmar border.”“It is Prime Minister Shri @narendramodi Ji’s resolve to secure our borders. The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has decided that the Free Movement Regime (FMR) between India and Myanmar be scrapped to ensure the internal security of the country and to maintain the demographic structure of India’s North Eastern States bordering Myanmar. Since the Ministry of External Affairs is currently in the process of scrapping it, MHA has recommended the immediate suspension of the FMR.”A report on The Hindu says that a nine-member delegation of Kuki-Zo groups met a team of officials from the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on February 7. The government team was led by A.K Mishra, Adviser, Northeast, Ministry of Home Affairs, and Intelligence Bureau officials. Concerns over the scrapping of the Free Movement Regime with Myanmar were raised at the three-hour long meeting and the January 24 Kangla Fort incident in Imphal when Arambai Tenggol, a radical Meitei group, administered oath to elected representatives to supposedly ‘protect the integrity of Manipur’.The tribal delegation is also reported to have broached concerns over “continued power outages in the hill districts of Churachandpur and Pherzawl,” where hill tribals mostly reside. The territorial divisions across the sensitive border state have acquired political dimensions after the state has been in a state of turmoil since May 3, with over 200 persons dead, around 300 churches vandalised or destroyed and 67,000 persons internally displaced. A delegate who was a part of the meeting told the newspaper that the demand for a separate administration for the Kuki-Zo people is still on the table and “they would continue to press for it.”The meeting follows Manipur Chief Minister N. Biren Singh’s Delhi visit on February 3, when he met Amit Shah. On Tuesday, Shah announced the Modi government’s fence the entire 1,643-km border with Myanmar, with direct consequences for the Kuki-Zo people who share ethnic ties with those across the border who earlier had permission to travel freely across the borders for upto a fortnight and stay within 16 kms of the other’s territory. Two chief ministers of the northeast, from Mizoram and Nagaland have also opposed the plans to fence off India.Modi on a long election campaign in Karnataka when trouble first broke out, has avoided travel to the state and not even spoken about it bar a seconds-long intervention when a video of a mob attacking two women went viral. His decision to not make a visit has come under fire. He did not even go to neighbouring Mizoram to campaign for the state assembly polls.