Silchar, Feb. 12: The Jewel Gorlosa group of the Dima Halam Daogah (DHD) has called an indefinite blockade of trains in the hill section metre gauge line and of vehicles on the road link to lower Assam via Lumding in Dima Hasao district from 5am on February 15.
The bandh has been called to demand the release of the outfit’s chairman Jewel Gorlosa and deputy commander Niranjan Hojai. The cadres of the outfit had laid down arms on October 2, 2009 in the presence of chief minister Tarun Gogoi but its two leaders are lodged in a jail in Guwahati.
The bandh will also effect the construction of the East-West expressway and the gauge conversion project in the district.
DHD (J) vice-chairman Phaiprang Dimasa said over phone from Haflong today that the indefinite bandh would cover the construction of the East-West expressway from Silchar to Porbandar in Gujarat and upgradation of the metre gauge rail line, passing through Dima Hasao areas, into broad gauge.
He warned that if the Union and state governments continued to harbour “a stepmotherly feeling towards the Jewel group, then it would have no alternative other than return to the jungles.”
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