Imphal, April 07 2010: Normal life in hill areas of Manipur continued to paralyzed for the second day Wednesday with the commencement of 72-hour hill bandh imposed by the Joint Action Committee for 2006/2009 Autonomous District Council DPC Faced Candidates' Parents and Guardians, Manipur.

Except the report of pelting stones to the vehicles plying on the Imphal-Mao section of the NH-39 with security escorts, no other untoward incident reported.

No major damages caused to the vehicles in the stoning but windshields of some vehicles shattered, reports said.

A total of 47 vehicles coming from outside the state but stranded at Mao gate owing the bandh were escorted upto Imphal by a team of Manipur Rifles this afternoon.

Among them 22 are trucks loaded with essential commodities, 24 oil tankers and three inter-state passenger buses arriving at Mao gate this morning.

The bandh was continuing peacefully in all the five hill districts of Senapati, Tamenglong, Churachandpur, Ukhrul and Chandel districts.

No passenger bus arrived in Imphal from these districts as inter-district buses were off the road.

Life across the four hill districts of Senapati, Tamenglong, Ukhrul and Chandel was disturbed yesterday due to down to dusk Chakka Bandh called in protest against proposed election to the Autonomous (Hills) District Councils under the amended ADC Act, 2009 which United Naga Council alleged of containing nothing autonomy to the councils.

The 72-hour bandh in the five hill districts of Manipur imposed by the Joint Action Committee for 2006/2009 Autonomous District Council DPC Faced Candidates' Parents and Guardians, Manipur commenced from last midnight.

It will continue till midnight of April 9 as announced by the body demanding declaration of the results of the DPC conducted by the authorities of each ADCs during 2009 .

The body has also announced that the indefinite economic blockade on the NH-53 and 39 has also begun from the same timing which the genera strike commenced, in a statement signed by its convenor Chungsat Khongsai today.

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