Railways urged to step in as road blockade leads to acute shortages in Manipur

Junior external affairs minister RK Ranjan Singh, an MP from Manipur, has requested the Railways to explore using the railway line for supplying essential commodities to the state, where an indefinite bandh has shut down a national highway, leading to shortages.

The bandh imposed by the Southern Angami People’s Organisation (SAPO) on the Imphal-Dimapur road along National Highway 2 entered its tenth day on Wednesday.

In a letter to Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, Singh stated that the bandh had curtailed the movement of private and commercial vehicles, bringing about acute shortages of essential commodities like petrol, diesel and cooking gas across the state.