UNC calls for lifting of economic blockade along NHs by CoTU
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, September 06 2023:
Maintaining that the state and central governments should initiate necessary steps to ensure uninterrupted supply of essential commodities throughout the length and breadth of the state, United Naga Council (UNC) has demanded that the persistent ongoing economic blockade being imposed by CoTU along the Highways be lifted immediately in the interest of all communities living in the state.
In a press communique, UNC stated that all communities in the state including the Nags have been suffering untold miseries following the mayhem which broke out in the state since May 3 last.
Stating that the Naga people have been enduring all the hardships and provocations from both the warring communities with patience hoping for resolution to the ongoing conflict, the UNC statement said that "but it turns out otherwise and all the more weight is being put upon the Naga people in many ways" .
While also urging the state and central governments to initiate steps to ensure uninterrupted supply of essential commodities across the state, the UNC statement also stated that unwarranted checking/frisking/detentions/unloading of essential commodities and various strictures imposing upon Naga people in sporadic areas and unabated illegal taxation/extortion towards the commuters and suppliers of essential commodities along the National Highways and Inter-District highways should be stopped once and for all.
It also made it clear that the economic blockade being imposed by CoTU along the highways should be lifted immediately in the interest of all communities living in the state, while adding that the state and central governments must also address the grievances like non-availability of life-saving drugs and essential commodities being faced by the Kuki-Zo community as demanded by CoTU.