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IMPHAL: A local pressure group has threatened to launch a five-day economic blockade on NH-53 connecting the Manipur capital with Silchar from June 11 in a bid to put pressure on the Okram Ibobi Singh government to upgrade Jiribam sub-division bordering Assam into a full-fledged revenue district.
The Jiribam District Demand Committee (JDDC) has also called a 30-hour strike from Monday midnight in the town, situated about 220 km from here, to press for its demand.
The JDDC's decision to call the economic blockade and the bandh comes barely a month after the people of the Phungyar sub-division in the Tangkhul Naga-dominated Ukhrul...