Karbi Anglong agitation to affect Manipur and Nagaland

Karbi Anglong agitation to affect Manipur and Nagaland

DIMAPUR, Aug 5: Manipur and Nagaland will face serious impact if the ongoing violent agitation in Assam’s Karbi Anglong district bordering Nagaland prolongs. People in Karbi Anglong district under the banner of Joint Action Committee for Autonomous State (JACAS) are fast intensifying its stir demanding to declare the district a statehood status. In Nagaland’s commercial hub Dimapur, the pinch of the Karbi Anglong district agitation has begun to be felt as commodities have stopped coming from Assam. A Muslim vendor who deals in birds ( country chicken, ducks, pigeons) told Newmai News Network in Dimapur on Monday that he has been taking rest in the last few days in his home here due to the serious agitation in Karbi Anglong. This Muslim trader, who did not want to be identified, has been bringing local chicken, ducks and pigeons from Assam to Dimapur in the past 20 years or so.

Meanwhile, Manipur and Nagaland bound trucks have stranded in various places in Assam owing to the violent agitation in Karbi Anglong district. Even as the agitation of JACAS is heightening, the Karbi People’s Liberation Tiger (KPLT) has announced to impose Karbi Anglong and Dima Hasao 300 hours bandh from 5:00 am of August 5 which will conclude on August 17 in support of the statehood demand. 

Meanwhile, the Eastern Naga Peoples Organisation (ENPO) that had just turned down the Rs 300 crore package in lieu of the Frontier Nagaland, is believed to be indulging in intense discussion on the matter. Attempts to contact the ENPO leaders proved futile by this news agency. 

On July 24, holding rallies in the four districts of Kiphire, Tuensang, Mon and Longleng, the ENPO leaders had demanded that the government of India immediately starts the dialogue on the ‘Frontier Nagaland’ state creation by carving out the four districts from Nagaland state. The ENPO’s demand for the creation of ‘Frontier Nagaland’ was peaked in 2011 accusing the successive Nagaland governments of meting out step-motherly treatments to the four eastern districts of Nagaland. Two years ago, Nagas in four Nagaland districts had carried out massive public rallies demanding the creation of a new state christened as ‘Frontier Nagaland’ by bifurcating Nagaland. The ENPO, which is the apex organization of six Naga tribes including Konyak, Khiamniungan, Chang, Yimchunger, Sangtam and Phom inhabiting the four districts, had submitted a memorandum to the Prime Minister urging him to realize the demand