Source: The Imphal Free Press
Imphal, December 10:
A joint action committee, JAC, formed in opposition to the proposed shifting of the SSB group centre from Manipur, has called a state-wide 24 hour bandh on December 18 next to press for retention of the same in the state.
The bandh will commence from 6 pm of December 17 and ends at 6 pm on the next day.
Announcing this, representatives of the JAC told newsmen at a press conference today said that the JAC had already submitted memoranda to the Prime Minister, and the Union home minister and defence minister and the concerned SSB authorities on November 17 last which set a deadline for 15 days.
As no positive response has come even after crossing the deadline, the JAC has decided to launch a series of steps, the spokesman said.
He also disclosed that prior to the bandh the JAC would hold a series of public meetings in all districts to sensitize the public on the issue.
Flaying the move to shift the group centre, a spokesman charged that the Centre was utterly indifferent to the development of Manipur.