Imphal, October 21: ATSUM has called off its indefinite strike along the national highways, and of the railway project, this evening after the Chief Minister invited the tribal students`™ body for negotiations.
Addressing a press meet at its office in Nagaram, ATSUM president Maun Tombing said the students`™ body decided to impose the indefinite bandh in the hill districts from October 21 after the government failed to comply with the agreement made last year.
Chief Minister Okram Ibobi invited representatives of ATSUM today for holding talks on their pending demands.
The negotiations will be held in the morning of October 22 at around 8 am at the Chief Minister`™s chamber. We hope that the talks bring positive results, Tombing said.
He added that the bandh imposed by ATSUM on the national highways and the railway project in the State has been revoked on October 21 at around 3:30 pm.
`If the talk with government fails then ATSUM is free to launch an agitation at any moment. We are counting on the government to keep the promises it made on November 29 last year` the president of the Maun Tombing faction of ATSUM said.
ATSUM had called an indefinite blockade starting today which would have stopped all sorts of vehicular movement along the National Highways and the National projects including railway construction works etc.
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