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Imphal, Dec 3: Armed rebel group Maoist Communist Party, Manipur has boycotted the winter session of the Manipur Legislative Assembly which is scheduled to begin from December 20.
In a press statement the outfit said that it will called 12 hours general strike on December 20 in all five districts of valley area from 5 am till 5 pm. Electricity, medicals, media and religious related activities will be relaxed during the genral strike said the statement.
As per the statement sent through e-mail, the outfit said that the assembly is being boycotted and general strike is called on the day of the assembly session as the government fails to distribute the rice and oil to the people under the public distribution system.
On November 5, this year the outfit had called general strike against the failure to distribute peoples’ share under the PDS but till now those responsible in the hijacking of the peoples’ share have not been punished, the statement said.
It further added that even the opposition MLAs are not voicing anything for the rights of the poor people. The CSOs and other groups too remain silent over this matter.
The Manipur Maoist said that even as it knows that general strike will give burden to the poor working class, the organisation is left with no other choice other than calling the general strike.