Source: Hueiyen News Service
Shillong, April 01 2009:
The proscribed Meghalaya based Hyniewtrep National Liberation Council (HNLC) has called a 24-hour Meghalaya bandh from the evening of April 12 to the evening of
April 13 .
According to the email statement sent by the HNLC punblicity secreatry Sainkupar Nongtraw today, the outfit has called a bandh that will come into effect from 6 pm on Aprl 12 till 6 pm of April 13 which is understood to be in protest against the proposed visit of the Congress president and UPA Chairmnan Sonia Gandhi to Shillong.
Gandhi is supposed to give an election speech.
The reason that the HNLC called for a bandh is sorrounded on three points.
The outfit's oppossition to the Indian Republic and Constititution and the "double standards" adopted by the Union government to the letter given by the outfit.
The statement that reiterated the leadership stand was full of critical notes against the politicians especially it casted they want more of elections than making the next generations.