It came into being in 2019 in the wake of the peace talks between the Indian government and Naga rebel groups, as the latter sought autonomy and integration of the Naga-inhabited areas of Manipur into a Greater Nagaland.
COCOMI campaigns for maintaining the "territorial integrity" of Manipur, which was a princely state under the British Raj and became part of the Indian Union upon India's independence.
[7] In October 2019, COCOMI launched a mass protest to oppose any deal that could affect the territorial integrity of Manipur during the Indo-Naga peace talks.
The then president, Sunil Karam, said that the central government's move to settle the Naga issue without Maniput state's involvement was an "insult" to Manipur.
[9][10][11] The Convention also rejected the Union home minister Amit Shah's appeal to surrender weapons looted from the police armouries and refused combing operations by security forces, though it backtracked on this resolution the following day.