Guwahati: Student volunteers of Meitei umbrella group, Coordinating Committee on Manipur Integrity (COCOMI), Wednesday locked several central and state govt offices and forced employees to leave in protest against the continuing violence in the state. A large number of security personnel, including CRPF, were deployed in govt offices across all valley districts and Jiribam.
Dhanakumar Meitei, coordinator of COCOMI Students’ Front, told the media, “We started our campaign by shutting down state govt offices. We hold govt officials responsible for failing to restore peace and ending violence. We also urge govt employees not to come to office.”
COCOMI coordinator Thokchom Somorendro said the state govt had failed to act on the NDA resolutions to conduct mass operations against Kuki militants within seven days and to remove AFSPA from areas where it was recently imposed and as a result, “the organisation decided to shut down all state and govt offices for two days.”
Meanwhile, the state govt further extended the suspension of mobile internet services for two more days until Nov 29 in nine districts — Imphal West, Imphal East, Kakching, Bishnupur, Thoubal, Churachandpur, Kangpokpi, Pherzawl and Jiribam. tnn