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Manipur exploding into insurgency flames again – Government may soon face challenge
Manipur is again experiencing extreme tension. This time it seems a coordinated effort of insurgents in Assam, Nagaland, Maghalaya and Manipur. Government of India is taking it lightly.
According to media sources, hundreds of passengers were stranded at many places in Manipur during a Naga-student sponsored economic blockade for the second day, even as two India Reserve Battalion personnel were suspended for their role in alleged attack on agitators, official sources said.
Situation arising out of blockade on Imphal-Guwahati National Highway 39 in Senapati district was reported tense, as the state remained cut off from the country, the sources said.
Although two India reserve battalion personnel who were allegedly involved in the beating of a civilian and shooting at another on Friday night in Senapati had been suspended, the blockade remained in force. Reports from Senapati said although the Naga-sponsored blockade of NH 39 would end this evening, another blockade by a Sadar hill district demand committee on the same highway would begin from midnight for three days.
Peeved at the frequent blockades, which impeded normal activity in the state, an umbrella organisation of Manipuri students the United Committee Manipur blamed the central government for not developing the Imphal-Silchar highway (NH53) and for deployment of protection forces on it.
At a meeting here, UCM resolved to demand urgent steps for development of National highways that serve as a lifeline to the state and appealed to the all Naga Students Association in Manipur (ANSAM) to settle the issues to end the indefinite economic blockade on NH 39.
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