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MODI GOES EXTRA MILES IN MANIPUR
The Morning Standard
|September 14, 2025
WHEN a rainy day struck Manipur on Saturday, the odds were that Prime Minister Narendra Modi may not make it to Kuki heartland Churachandpur, but he did an Atal Behari Vajpayee.
Modi, perhaps, unwittingly did what Vajpayee had resorted to on a rainy October afternoon in 2003 in Nagaland. When Vajpayee's helicopter could not take off from Nagaland's commercial hub Dimapur to the state capital Kohima due to inclement weather, he took the bumpy ride to Kohima by highway.
Ditto. Modi faced bad weather and took the road from Imphal to Churachandpur, located about 60.km from the Imphal airport, in southern Manipur. Vajpayee had travelled a little more 75 km.
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