12-hour strike cripples normal life in Manipur

Our Correspondent
Imphal, Oct. 15 (EMN): A 12-hour general strike called by several proscribed underground groups operating in Manipur crippled normal life in Manipur on Tuesday.
Coordination Committee (Cor Com), a conglomeration of proscribed underground groups in Manipur, and a join team of Alliance for Socialist Unity Kangleipak (ASUK) and National Liberation Front (NLF) of Tripura called for a total shutdown in Manipur and Tripura from 6 am to 6pm on October 15, in protest against the ‘forced merger’ of Manipur into Union of India in 1949.

Markets and commercial establishments, banks, educational institutions remained closed during the day. However, no untoward incident was reported.

Attendance in government offices in and around Imphal was very thin as the inter-state, inter-district and other city-based public transport services remained off the roads.