IMPHAL, Nov 18 NNN: Around 9 trucks were reportedly damaged when volunteers of Kuki State Demand Committee (KSDC) stoned them at around 9:30 last night along the National Highway-2 between Kangpokpi and Sekmai.
Reports said the goods laden trucks coming from Dimapur towards Imphal were stoned by the volunteers. However, no one was injured in the incidents.
In yet another related incident, blockade supporters and the security force personnel had a scuffle at a place called Yaingangpokpi in Imphal-Ukhrul road this morning.
Reports said vehicles including goods, pasenger and light vehicles escorted by the security force were heading towards Imphal from Ukhrul side by confronted by the blockade supporters at Yangangpokpi at around 11:30 am.
Yangaipokpi is located between the border of Imphal East district and Sadar Hills.
Reports from Senapati said as many as 75 goods laden trucks have been stranded along the NH-2 in the Senapati district today following the KSDC blockade. Some vehicles have been escorted to Imphal this afternoon but many are still stranded, added the reports.
The KSDC sponsored ‘public blockade’ that began since 5 pm on Saturday has been crippling vehicular moments in all the roads leading to the state capital Imphal. This KSDC agitation has literally choked the life-lines of Manipur since last evening.
Meanwhile, KSDC information secretary George Guite informed Newmai News Network this evening that the Committee will wait for the government response till 3 pm on Monday. “If no positive response comes forth by 3 pm tomorrow, the executive meeting of the Kuki State Demand Committee will be held at 5 pm and decide the next course of agitation which is for intensification of the ongoing protest,” said George Guite.
Earlier, Kuki State Demand Committee (KSDC) secretary Benjamin Mate and its information secretary George Guite had informed that ‘only after a written assurance is given by the Government of India that the process of political dialogue with Kukis, involving KSDC and Kuki militants, would begin within a predetermined date, then only we may review our stand’.
The indefinite “public blockade” in all the highways passing through “Kuki areas” was announced on November 12 by the Kuki State Demand Committee (KSDC) in demand ‘for a separate Kuki state to be carved out of Kuki traditional lands incorporated within the present day Manipur.
Kuki State Demand Committee (KSDC) will wait for any positive response from the government till Monday afternoon before it takes new course of action.
KSDC information secretary George Guite informed that the Committee will wait for the government response till 3 pm on Monday. “If no positive response comes forth by 3 pm tomorrow, the executive meeting of the Kuki State Demand Committee will be held at 5 pm and decide the next course of agitation which is for intensification of the ongoing protest,” said George Guite.
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