During her one-day visit, Sonia Gandhi is scheduled to inaugurate three newly constructed women markets here and the Khuga multi-purpose project in Churachandpur district. She is also expected to launch other development projects.
The organisations have called the strike as a mark of protest against the non-disclosure of the whereabouts of Sana Yaima, the chairman of the United National Liberation Front, who was reportedly arrested from Dhaka and brought to India.
Media reports said RAW and Bangladesh intelligence officials had arrested Yaima alias R.K. Meghen from Dhaka. A UNLF release also claimed that he was arrested from Dhaka on September 29 and brought to India.
Union home secretary G.K. Pillai had denied the reports during his visit here last month but had promised to confirm it from Bangladesh officials.
Yaima’s wife, R.K. Ongbi Ibemnungshi, has submitted representations to the home ministry and the National Human Rights Commission, seeking the whereabouts of her husband.
She has also filed a petition in the Imphal bench of Gauhati High Court seeking directives to the home ministry, defence ministry and the Manipur government to produce Yaima.
The Centre has not made any official confirmation or denial of the reported arrest so far.
“The government is violating all international human rights laws by not disclosing the whereabouts of Sana Yaima after arrest. This is a case of involuntary disappearance. We are boycotting Sonia Gandhi’s visit against violation of human rights,” O. Bikramjit, spokesperson of the 17 civil society organisations, told reporters this afternoon.
The organisations are demanding that Yaima be produced immediately.
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