Yairipok shutdown protests monetary demands
Source: Chronicle News Service
Thoubal, January 12 2025:
In denunciation of the unbearable monetary demands served by various organisations on shopkeepers in and around Yairipok market, an indefinite general strike called by Yairipok Shop Owners' Welfare Association has been enforced effective from Sunday.
All shops and establishments in Yairipok Keithel downed the shutters while strike supporters blocked the road in and around Yairipok Keithel.
According to secretary Kh Surat, the Association has been extending support to those defending Meetei villages in the periphery areas ever since the conflict broke out in May 2023 and will continue to do so in the future.
However, some organisations asking the businesses to pay unaffordable amount cannot be accepted and tolerated, he declared, while clarifying that the strike is against any specific organisation, but is a humble appeal to all concerned not to insist on paying unbearable amount.
He also urged the state government to intervene on the matter.