New Delhi: A Bharatiya Janata Party legislator who on February 20 succumbed to injuries sustained in a brutal mob attack during the height of the ethnic violence in Manipur had written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi five months ago, highlighting how no special inquiry was initiated to investigate the attack, The Hindu has reported.The report says that Vungzagin Valte wrote to Modi on September 13, 2025, when the prime minister made his first visit to Manipur – over two years after violence first broke out in the state in early May 2023.“On May 4, 2023, after attending security meeting at CM’s office, to discuss the safe transportation of my people especially Churachandpurians stranded in Imphal due to the ethnic violence, I was brutally attacked on my way back home at RIMS Road by the Meitei militia [Arambai Tenggol], resulting in severe injuries that have left me paralysed and handicapped till date. Despite the gravity of this incident, no special inquiry [CBI/NIA] has been initiated, and the community remains marginalised,” the letter said.The words in the third brackets are presumably additions by the news outlet. The Arambai Tenggol, an armed militia of Meiteis, has assumed responsibility for a number of ethnic crimes.As The Wire has reported, Valte, a Zomi legislator who represented the Thanlon seat in Manipur’s predominantly Kuki-Zo Churachandpur district, passed away at the Medanta Hospital in Gurugram, to which he had been moved from the northeastern state earlier this month after his condition deteriorated. The state, which came out of President’s Rule as recently as February 4, has announced a three-day period of mourning for Valte.The Hindu report recorded that in the letter, Valte had said that as a three-term MLA and BJP adviser to former Chief Minister N. Biren Singh, he had “witnessed firsthand the challenges faced by the Zomi-Kuki-Hmar community” and how its members had been driven out of Imphal and the valley.“In light of this, I humbly request that a Separate Administration, preferably a Union Territory with a legislature under the Indian Constitution, be granted to the indigenous tribal community as mentioned above,” the letter said.Valte’s appeal for a separate administration aligned with the demands of the Kuki National Organisation and the United People’s Front, who are seeking a political solution through Suspension of Operations talks. “I urge you to consider this request at the highest level, as forced imposition of peace has proven unsustainable in Manipur’s history,” his letter said.Modi had condoled Valte’s death on social media but it is not clear if he read or responded to Valte’s letter.