IMPHAL, Aug 6: The United Naga Council has today said in a press release that due to the failure of the centre to response on a submission of union on the date for the 6th round of tripartite talk with the centre and state government, its presidential council has decided on a series of agitations including a 48 hour Naga inhabited are bandh starting August 11 midnight.
It may be mentioned that the UNC announcement of the 48 hour Naga area bandh has come in a day after NH 2 was reopened after the devastating July 12 landslide which had cut off the state’s lifeline until it was declared re-opened yesterday.
The statement said the presidential council of the UNC held at Tahamzam on August 5, 2013 decided on a 48 hours total bandh in Naga areas from the midnight of August 11, to midnight of August 13, 2013.
“Medical services, fire-brigade, media, power and telecommunication departments and observation of Bolbum ritual will be exempted from the purview of the total bandh”, it said before adding that it will abstain from participation in the 66th Indian Independence Day celebration.
It was also decided that a ban on all construction works of Central Projects such as the Trans-Asian Railway line and Power Grid line would be observed indefinitely till otherwise decided and that all concerned tribe should be vigilant and disallow the arbitrary boundary fencing being taken up on the Indo-Burma borders which seeks to disintegrate or barter away Naga areas.
The issue on census/delimitation and denial of representation being spearheaded by the NPO will be supported by all tribes/organizations, it said.