Manipur Key Candidate Detail

Nongthombam Biren Singh began his career as a footballer and got recruited in the Border Security Force (BSF) for its team. He resigned from the BSF and began the vernacular daily Naharolgi Thoudang in 1992 and was its editor till 2001. In 2002, Biren joined the Democratic Revolutionary People's Party and won the assembly elections from Heingang constituency. He retained the seat in 2007 on a Congress ticket after joining the party in 2003, following which he became a cabinet minister in the Congress-led government in 2012. In 2016, he made a switch over to the Bharatiya Janata Party and the following year, 61-year-old Biren retained his seat from Heingang and was named the 12th chief minister of Manipur.