UNC bandh affects normal life in hills
Source: Hueiyen News Service / NNN
Senapati, June 17 2014:
United Naga Council (UNC) sponsored 48 hours bandh crippled all the national highways and inter-state highways except the Imphal-Churachandpur road today.
In the district headquarters of Tamenglong, Senapati, Ukhrul, Chandel and the sub-divisional headquarters in these four districts witnessed normal activities being severely affected.
However, since the educational institutions are exempted from the purview of the bandh, students were seen going to their respective institution on the first day of the bandh today.
The bandh began since midnight of Monday.
There was no untoward reported anywhere due to the bandh today.
UNC has called the bandh in protest against what it describes as 'communal onslaught' of the Manipur Government that continues relentlessly through administrative orders, gazettes, notifications etc.
to usurp the land and destroy the traditional institutions and village republics of the Nagas and tribals.