Shop Owners Welfare Association imposes indefinite general strike in Yairipok Bazar
Source: The Sangai Express
Thoubal, January 10 2025:
Yairipok Shop Owners Welfare Association has called an indefinite general strike in Yairipok Bazar from 5 am of January 12 against "rampant" and "unbearable" monetary demands being served by organisations.
The association in a release stated that the shopkeepers of Yairipok Keithel have been doing whatever they can and extending all sorts of support to those in the frontline since the beginning of the conflict in May 2023.It further appeals to all the concerned organisations to not impose "unbearable" monetary demands to the shopkeepers.
Electricity, Fire Service, PHED, emergency services, medical services and religious ceremonies will be exempted from the purview of the general strike, added the Association.