SHILLONG: Following an array of requests from several quarters, the pro-ILP activists have decided to reduce the duration of the September 20 state bandh.
Instead of a 24-hour bandh, KSU vice president Frederick Kharmawphlang on Tuesday informed that the bandh would now be of only 12-hour duration and would be effective from 5 am to 5 pm of September 20.
Stating that on the stipulated day of the bandh they are a few marriage ceremonies to be solemnized, the KSU leaders urged that the concerned families should stick balloons on the top of the vehicles to help volunteers identify.
UDP unhappy: The UDP is piqued by the attitude of nonchalance exhibited by the State Government in the ongoing ILP agitation.
“Government is neither attempting to break the deadlock nor tying to restore normalcy,” UDP working President Paul Lyngdoh said in a statement issued here on Tuesday. Unless a structured dialogue with the agitating groups initiated, Lyngdoh said the State seems to be heading towards turbulent times which Government cannot afford at this juncture.
