Mumbai: The violent protest in Manipur intensified as a huge mob tried to enter the house of Union minister of state for external affairs and education R.K. Ranjan Singh at Kongba in Manipur’s East Imphal district late at night on May 25. The ethnic clashes began in the state around 25 days ago. According to a report in the Indian Express, Rapid Action Force (RAF) and Manipur Police personnel reached the spot and dispersed the mob before it could storm into the house. According to the news report, Singh was present in the house.On Friday, May 26, the state’s chief minister N. Biren Singh urged the public “not to be worried” as operations against armed miscreants had begun both in the hills and the valley. As reported in the Indian Express, the CM said as many as 38 vulnerable areas have been identified where troops from central and state forces will operate jointly.These vulnerable areas are mostly situated in the peripheral areas of valley districts bordering Kuki- dominated districts, including the Torbung area of the Bishnupur district, the Express report states. Torbung area is at the epicentre of the latest flare-up of tensions in the state. To date, around 75 people are reported to have been killed in the violence and several severely injured.The CM claimed that as of Friday that 34,000 troops from central forces were currently stationed in the state. Their presence, he claimed, had brought down the prevailing sense of apprehension to some extent.In the neighbouring Bishnupur district, several women from Meitei villages blocked the entry of central armed forces to the Kwakta region of Manipur’s Bishnupur district, where a man was killed and another was injured in violence that erupted early on May 24. According to a ground report in The Print, the women “seething and armed with sticks and slingshots, dressed in traditional attire and carrying placards”, screamed at the men in uniform, urging them to go back.After the Bishnupur incident, curfew relaxations between 5 am and 4 pm in Bishnupur, Imphal East and Imphal West were cancelled. Since the violence broke out, many abandoned houses of both Meitei and Kuki communities have been torched in the Kwakta region of the state.After one person died, the violent attacks were out of control, leading to the burning of several houses in Bishnupur. Shooting incidents were reported in multiple locations, theprint reports.