ATSUM to intensify economic blockade
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Kakching, June 28 2015 :
Trade activities with Myanmar have been ground to a halt since the last 6 consecutive days due to the Indefinite Economic Blockade called by the All Tribal Students' Union Manipur (ATSUM) .
Since the volunteers of the Students body enforced the economic blockade along the Imphal-Moreh section of National Highway 102, trade activities with the neighbouring country came to grinding halt for the last 6 days.
The blockade supporters continued to unload goods after checking all vehicles plying along the Imphal - Moreh road in between Thamlapokpi and Bongjang Village.
And a generator set belonging to Moreh Government Higher Secondary School was also burnt down by the Volunteers of the students' body after pulling it down from a vehicle today.
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Speaking to the media persons, Valan Aimol, Social and Culture Secretary of All Tribal Students' Union Manipur (ATSUM) said that the students' body also acknowledged the hardship faced by the people due to the economic blockade.
But we were compelled to launch the economic blockade as the State Government failed to address our grievances even after submitting several memoranda and serving an ultimatum to fulfill our charter of demands, he added.
He further said that after enforcing the blockade for the last 6 days, the state government did not response positively till date.
If the State government does not respond positively at the earliest, the student body will intensify the agitation and impose total blockade/bandh in the near future, warned the students' leader.