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Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, September 01 2009:
Normal life in the hill districts was thrown out of gear due to the 12 hours hill districts bandh called by the Indigenous Democratic Front (IDF) demanding early polls to the District Councils.
Due the bandh, Ukhrul district headquarters was paralysed.
There was no taxi or bus service.
Government offices, educational institutions, shops and business units remained closed.
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At different places in Senapati district, there were minor confrontations between bandh supporters and bandh opposers.
However, there is no report of any untoward incident.
There was no inter-State transport service.
Government offices, educational institutions and market centres were all shut.
Normal life in Tamenglong district was also affected by the bandh.
Our Tamenglong correspondent reports that there was little traffic on the roads as market centres, schools and Government offices remained closed.
The bandh produced similar impacts in Chandel, Churachandpur and Sadar Hills.
However, there is no report of any major incident in the course of the bandh.
Meanwhile, IDF president Ngachonmi Chamroy has stated that governance based on indigenous democracy to indigenous peoples (tribal peoples) is the aim and objective of the IDF.
Speaking to media persons at Manipur Press Club this afternoon, Ngachonmi maintained that the IDF would carry on with different forms of agitation until its aim and objective are achieved after conducting election to the District Councils.
Even as the District Council Act, 1971, was enacted by the Government, the Government is unable to implement the same Act.
As such, the IDF would construe that the Government has become paralysed.
The IDF may launch a strong movement at any time in pursuit of its demand, Ngachonmi confided.
With the District Council elections kept postponed, the Government of India's annual allotment of Rs 25 crores for infrastructure development in hills districts have been going to waste, he lamented.
In connection with the protracted delay in conducting the District Council elections, a Public Interest Litigation has been filed at the Gauhati High Court.
He also appreciated the massive support extended to IDF's different movements from all the hill districts.
As regards the contradictory statements made by some organisations, he noted that it is acceptable under the ideologies and practices of democracy.
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