ANSAM calls 72-hr bundh from July 12
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Imphal: The All Naga Students’ Association, Manipur (ANSAM) has called for a 72-hour chaka bundh from July 12 in all Naga inhabited areas of the state in protest against the “undemocratic and suppressive acts of the state Government of Manipur”.
ANSAM is demanding the repeal of the Manipur (Hill Areas) District Councils (3rd Amendment) Act 2008 which it claimed is “doctored and stripped off of all the provisions that go into self governance and the rights of the hill people over their land and resources and removing the primacy of the traditional institutions of the tribal”.
The students said that the Naga people under the leadership of United Naga Council were compelled to declare ADC election “null and void”. It has asked all the “unmandated members of ADC” to immediateley resign from office of the so called Autonomous District Council. Manipur government recently had organised a big function for the swearing ceremony of the MDCs who were mostly Congressmen declared winners from uncontested seats.
However, ANSAM said, emergency and essential services viz, medical, electricity, fire-service, water supply, postal & telecom services will be exempted from the purview of the bundh.
“Any untoward incidence arising out of violation of the proposed restriction will be at one’s own risk,” it warned.
