Aizawl: An umbrella body of transporters’ associations based in Myanmar border Champhai district staged an indefinite blockade on all goods illegally imported from the neighbouring country to protest against the alleged one-sided crackdown on smuggled areca nuts in the state, a leader said Thursday.
The indefinite strike, which came days after the torching of about 300 bags of smuggled areca nuts by volunteers in western Mizoram’s Mamit district recently, has entered the second day on Thursday.
A leader of Champhai District Lirther Inzawmkhawm Pawl (CDLIP) said that the strike began on Wednesday in all parts of Champhai district in protest against the biased approach to stopping the transportation of only Burmese areca nuts among all goods illegally entering from Myanmar.
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