KSDC to wait till 3 pm today for Government response
Source: Hueiyen News Service / NNN
Imphal, November 18 2012:
Kuki State Demand Committee (KSDC) will wait for any positive response from the government till Monday afternoon before it takes new course of action.
KSDC information secretary George Guite informed Newmai News Network this evening that the Committee will wait for the government response till 3 pm on Monday.
"If no positive response comes forth by 3 pm tomorrow, the executive meeting of the Kuki State Demand Committee will be held at 5 pm and decide the next course of agitation which is for intensification of the ongoing protest," said George Guite.
Earlier, Kuki State Demand Committee (KSDC) secretary Benjamin Mate and its information secretary George Guite had informed Newmai News Network that 'only after a written assurance is given by the Government of India that the process of political dialogue with Kukis, involving KSDC and Kuki militants, would begin within a predetermined date, then only we may review our stand' .
The indefinite "public blockade" in all the highways passing through "Kuki areas" was announced on November 12 by the Kuki State Demand Committee (KSDC) in demand 'for a separate Kuki state to be carved out of Kuki traditional lands incorporated within the present day Manipur.