Yairipok stir to continue
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, August 26 2016 :
The JAC constituted against the construction of a power sub-station at Yairipok Govt Aided High School campus has stated that they will continue boycotting Wangkhem AC MLA K Meghachandra until the sub-station is shifted to another place.
Speaking to reporters at Manipur Press Club, JAC convenor Kshetrimayum Ito said that seven students who have been pulled up under the MLA's alleged insistence for staging indefinite hunger strike on the issue are being detained at Juvenile Correction Home.
However, 15 students are still continuing the stir, he said.
Ito further said that they would continue boycotting the MLA and staging the stir until the sub-station is shifted.
He also expressed deep concern over Government's silence on the issue even after the submission of a memorandum to the Chief Minister.
Saying that there is a ten-member committee of the school, Ito said that four members have been however banished by their respective localities on the issue.