All Kohima Indane Distributors Association temporarily calls off bandh. (Representative Image: Morung File)
Temporarily calls off bandh, to resume services from July 22
Kohima, July 21 (MExN): The All Kohima Indane Distributors Association (AKIDA) has written to Nagaland Deputy Chief Minister and Home Minister stating they would resume services from July 22 on the condition that the Home Minister takes seeking legal action against the miscreants involved in the assault of LPG Drivers on July 4 and 9, within 7 days.
Expressing pain at the “rampant incidents of assault and all kinds of menace in the form of extortion, illegal taxation, and mental harassment meted out against the business communities in the State,” AKIDA President Kuolachalie Seyie and General Secretary Tseibou Dzüvichü stated that the association’s July 18 representation to the Chief Secretary, Director General Police and Commissioner of Nagaland did not get any “satisfactory assurance” or “appropriate steps” till date.
Further, it stated that the association is aware that the brunt of the indefinite ban will be faced by the public and as such, requested the Home Minister “to consider and take appropriate legal action against the miscreants” within 7 days.
“However, if the Government failed to take any concrete legal action against the five miscreants, the undersigned shall be constrained to agitate again in the form of indefinite bandh of LPG Distributors outlet in an around Kohima, till legal action deemed fit is taken against the perpetrators,” the letter stated.
