IMPHAL, Oct 8 – The Joint Action Committee (JAC) against the disappearance of contractor Irungbam Irabanta has called a 48-hour general strike on Imphal-Ukhrul road in Manipur from midnight of October 9.
In case there is no breakthrough in the missing contractor’s whereabouts, the JAC has threatened to impose an indefinite economic blockade from October 12 on the same route.
JAC sources said here on Saturday that the committee is constrained to impose general strike and economic blockade to protest the alleged incompetency of the Government in rescuing Irabanta.
The sources lamented that inspite of repeated pleas to the Union Home Minister, Manipur Governor, Chief Minister and State Home Minister to trace the whereabouts of Irabanta, there is no positive development in the past four months.
Irabanta, residing near Gate no 3 of Jawaharlal Nehru Insititute of Medical Science in Imphal East district is untraced ever since he left home on a Maruti Gypsy on May 27.
The JAC and other civil society organisations suspect the hand of the NSCN (IM) behind the disappearance of Irabanta. However, the NSCN-IM had denied any involvement in the case.
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