♦ Yumnam Khemchand Singh took oath as the new Chief Minister of Manipur on 4 February 2026. Governor Ajay Kumar Bhalla administered the oath of office and secrecy at Lok Bhawan at Imphal. Along with him, Deputy Chief Ministers Nemcha Kipgen and Losii Dikho, and the state's new Home Minister Govindas Konthoujam took oath.

♦ The Ministry of Home Affairs issued a notification announcing the revocation of President’s Rule in Manipur with immediate effect. During the President's Rule, which came into effect after N Biren Singh resigned as chief minister in February 2025, Manipur's assembly had been in a state of suspended animation - inactive but not dissolved.

♦ Yumnam Khemchand Singh as the State’s second Chief Minister since the 2022 election. The first, Nongthombam Biren Singh, resigned on February 9, 2025, as a casualty of the ethnic conflict between the Kuki-Zo and Meitei communities that broke out on May 3, 2023.

♦ Khemchand was elected from Singjamei Assembly Constituency in 2017 on BJP ticket and became Speaker of Manipur Legislative Assembly. He was again elected from the same constituency in the last general election and became minister to the then N. Biren led government.