24-hour Sadar Hills bandh called in Manipur

The Joint Action Committee (JAC) spearheading the current agitation in the state, has given a call for a 24-hour bandh in Sadar Hill area in Senapati district beginning midnight tonight including National Highway No 2 and a portion of Asian Highway No 1.
A press release issued by the convener of the JAC, formed by about 22 representatives of civil society organisations and villages, decided to call the bandh against the passage of three bills in the Manipur assembly on August 31 terming them as anti-tribal and against the killing of nine protesters at Churachandpur.
The JAC appealed to all individuals and particularly transporters to support the bandh and warned that appropriate action would be taken up against those who violated their diktat, the release added.

The JAC exempted schools, colleges, water supply, fire service, medical or hospital, electricity, wedding party, airport, religious processions from the purview of the bandh, it added.
Meanwhile, a 60-hour bandh is on at Churachandpur district from September 8 which has witnessed widespread arson and violence against passing of the bills.