Snubbed Kuki Inpi-SG, SANPO to go ahead with bandh
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, October 13, 2013:
Peeved at the absence of Deputy Chief Minister Gaikhangam after convening a meeting with their representatives, Kuki Inpi Saikul-Gamkai and Saikul Area Naga People's Organisation (SANPO) have decided to go ahead with the already announced 48 hours (vehicle) bandh in Senapati district with effect from October 14 midnight.
Speaking to media persons at Manipur Press Club here this afternoon, leaders of the two organisations said that the bandh would go on in accordance with the schedule announced earlier.
Kuki Inpi Saikul-Gamkai president Thangkham Lupheng decried that no response was received from the Dy Chief Minister who is also in charge of Home Department to their memorandum which sought annulment of the Home Department order that brought 120 villages of Saikul sub-division under the juris- dictions of Imphal East Police and Thoubal Police.
Altogether 35 villages of Saikul sub-division are under the jurisdiction of Sagolmang PS, 20 villages under Andro PS, 34 villages under Yaingangpokpi PS and another 10 villages under Nongpok Sekmai PS.
Thangkham went on to question as to why police stations opened at Maphou Dam and Purum Likli are kept under Imphal East District Police.
With regard to the bandh called by the two organisations, the Deputy Chief Minister invited Kuki Inpi Saikul-Gamkai and SANPO through the Saikul MLA to a meeting at 9.30 am of October 12. As both Kuki Inpi Saikul-Gamkai and SANPO wished to settle the matter without resorting to unnecessary disturbances like bandh, representatives of the two organisations went to the Deputy Chief Minister's quarters at 9 am yesterday together with the Saikul AC MLA.
But the Deputy Chief Minister was not found at his quarters which was nothing but an open insult to the two organisations, Thangkham said.
The district level bandh which would continue till October 16 would exempt educational institutions, religious functions and media from its purview, Thangkham said while appealing to all transporters and the general public to support the bandh.