Imphal, Oct 3: After the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) called for a tripartite meeting on October 11, Manipur-based United Naga Council (UNC) on Wednesday temporarily suspended its 48-hour shutdown.
In a letter to UNC President N.G. Lorho, MHA advisor, North East Affairs, A.K. Mishra informed that the tripartite meeting with the Naga body would be held on October 11 in New Delhi and invited them to attend the meeting.
Soon after the MHA’s notice for the tripartite talks, the UNC announced the temporary suspension of its 48-hour shutdown from midnight of October 3 in support of their demand for rollback of the ‘arbitrary creation’ of seven new districts in all Naga-dominated areas of Manipur.
UNC’s Information and Publicity Secretary James Hau in a statement said that on receipt of an official invitation for a tripartite talk on their demand for the creation of new districts rollback between the Centre, Manipur government and the UNC on October 11 and at the request of the representative of the MHA, the proposed 48 hours total bandh in Naga areas from the midnight of October 3 is temporarily suspended.
The UNC statement said that seven new districts were created arbitrarily by bifurcating parent districts on December 8, 2016, during the Congress regime without any information, consent or knowledge of the stakeholders.
Naga people mostly inhabit six Manipur districts – Tamenglong, Chandel, Ukhrul, Kamjong, Noney and Senapati, which are along the Nagaland and Myanmar borders.
The UNC had on September 11 issued an ultimatum to Union Home Minister Amit Shah for redressal of the pending issue of “arbitrary creation” of seven new districts in Manipur in 2016 and warned of intense agitation if the matter was not resolved within 15 days.
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