Drivers' Union MDA reach out to stranded truck driven
Source: Chronicle News Service

Imphal, January 04 2025: All Manipur Road Transport Drivers' and Motor Workers' Union popularly known as Drivers' Union provided essential items to drivers stranded at Sekmai area due to the economic blockade imposed along NH-2 (Imphal-Dimapur) road by Committee on Tribal Unity (CoTU) since January 1.A team of Drivers' Union led by general secretary Maimom Anil distributed the items including rice, lentils, cooking oil and drinking water to stranded drivers on Friday.

After distributing the items, Anil told media persons that truck drivers plying along the NH-2 road have remained stuck on the highway since January 1 after Kuki civil society groups particularly CoTU imposed total shutdown and economic blockade.

Drivers' Union MDA reach out to stranded truck driven

He said many trucks remain stranded at Sekmai area, while scores of trucks loaded with edible items for people of both hills and valley of the state are stranded at T Khullen area in Senapati district.

Many of the trucks stranded at T Khullen are loaded with potato, onion, fish, egg and other edible items and these perishable items are at risk of being damaged if the blockade continues for some more days, he said.

He further disclosed that amid the winter season, the stranded drivers are facing enormous hardships.

"It is not right for some organisations to cause sufferings to drivers merely just to press for some demands.

Goods being brought to the state by drivers are for entire people of the state and this must be understood by the people," Anil said adding that drivers are also human beings.

On the other hand, Manipur Drivers Association (MDA) also distributed edible items like rice, lentils, cooking oil and drinking water to the stranded drivers and second drivers stranded at Sekmai area due to the ongoing economic blockade imposed by CoTU along NH-2 road.

A team of MDA visited Sekmai and distributed the items to around 300 drivers and second drivers of around 150 trucks stranded at the area.

Regarding the distribution, MDA assistant secretary Khundongbam Sangeetcharan said the items were distributed to ease sufferings of stranded drivers at least to some extent.

He said that frequent imposition of economic blockade along national highways by some organisations for their own vested interests cause enormous hardships to drivers.