NEW DELHI - India's federal government on Wednesday revoked the direct rule imposed in the restive northeastern state of Manipur in February last year, the state-run broadcaster All India Radio (AIR) said.

Yumnam Khemchand Singh, a Bharatiya Janata Party leader, took oath as the new chief minister of Manipur on Wednesday evening.

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Earlier in the day, Khemchand Singh met the state's Governor Ajay Kumar Bhalla and staked a claim to form a new local government in the state.

Last year in February, the then chief minister N Biren Singh resigned, two years after deadly ethnic violence broke out in the northeastern state, which claimed 258 lives and displaced over 60,000.