Mizoram SOS to Centre: Free NH supply route, rail link disrupted

Thursday, 29 July 2021Newsdesk

In his truck parked near the police outpost at Lailapur, the last Assam town on the border with Mizoram, Munazari Khan tries to take a nap in the sweltering heat. He has been on the road for a week now. He set out from Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh on July 20, carrying in his truck a consignment of mattresses for delivery in Aizawl, the capital of Mizoram.

New Delhi, 29 July 2021

As per news report of The Indian Express, He has been at Lailapur since Monday when violence erupted at this contested border point on National Highway 306, leaving six Assam Police personnel and a civilian dead, and several injured. “It was stupid of us not to have checked if there was any trouble on the way… that is why we are stuck here. I am losing Rs 8,000 a day,” said Khan who has been a trucker for 15 years. On Monday night, when he reached Lailapur at 11 pm, he learnt of the “mara-maari” earlier that evening. “It has been three days now and there’s no sign of any movement.”

Source -indianexpress.com