Tangkhul organization for 48 hours bandh

Imphal | July 19  : The frontal Tangkhul organisations in Ukhrul district under the aegis of Tangkhul Naga Long (TNL) have decided to fully endorse the United Naga Council (UNC) sponsored 48-hour bandh starting from July 20. The UNC and other Naga frontal organisations have announced to call the 48-hour bandh from Monday in protest against the Manipur cabinet decision to deploy police commandos and Indian Reserve Batallion (IRB) personnel in the hill districts of Manipur.
The TNL said today that Tangkhul social and students' organisations are all set to impose the total bandh. "We are all here for the effectiveness of the bandh," a spokesman of TNL said today. The United Naga Council (UNC), All Naga Students’ Association, Manipur (ANSAM), Naga Women Union, Manipur (NWUM) and the Naga Peoples’ Movement for Human Rights (NPMHR) had arrived at the decision to pursue its resolute stand to democratically protest the state cabinet decision to deploy IRB and Manipur police commandos in the hill districts in a joint meeting on July 13.
This series of bandhs in Manipur imposed both by the hills and valley districts have been going on one after the other or even in collision on different issues. The Democratic Students' Alliance of Manipur (DESAM)'s 120-hour bandh has been curtailed to 72-hour which ends on Saturday midnight. The Indigenous Democratic Front (IDF) had just succesfully imposed 12-hour hill districts bandh on Friday demanding the early holding of elections to the Autonomous District Council (ADC). The indefinite economic blockade of All Tribal Students Union, Manipur (ATSUM) is going on which had begun since midnight of July 15. Meanwhile, the IDF has announced to start its indefinite economic blockade from the last week of July.