The Naga tribal organisations today continued with their indefinite stir by paralysing functioning of government offices. Nagaland Tribes Action Committee, NTAC Kohima maintained that their demand for stepping down of the Chief Minister T R Zeliang and his Cabinet colleagues have not been fulfilled and so the bandh against the government will continue.
Meanwhile, state Governor P B Acharya, Chief Minister Zeliang and tribal bodies have convened separate consultative meetings to resolve the ongoing crisis.
The Nagaland government has fulfilled two demands of the NTAC with regard to declaring the entire process of elections to urban local bodies as null and void and suspension of the police officers and personnel involved in the January 31 firing which led to the death of two youths.
Volunteers of tribal organisations have locked the main gates of government offices all around the state demanding resignation of the Chief Minister and his Cabinet colleagues. Meanwhile, with National Highway 29 remaining closed due to protests, the state capital is facing shortage of petrol. There are around seven petrol pumps in and around Kohima and most of those have gone dry.
The NTAC Kohima, which is spearheading the protest against the government, has called a joint meeting of all tribal organisations in the state capital tomorrow.