A 12-hour total shutdown call given by several militant outfits against the merging of the princely state Manipur into the Indian Union on October 15, 1949, paralyzed normal life in Manipur on Sunday. In response to the bandh call, shops and business establishments remained closed, and normal traffic remained off the roads in the city, police said. However, security vehicles were seen in the strategic areas of the state during the shutdown.

Emergency and important services including medical, media, and religious ceremonies were exempted from the purview of the shutdown.

In separate press statements, 8 different underground groups stated that the sovereignty of Manipur declined with the Indian Union annexation of Manipur on October 15, 1949. The Coordination Committee (CorCom), Socialist Revolutionary Party (SOREPA) Kangleipak, and the Alliance for Socialist Unity, Kangleipak (ASUK) called the total shutdown from 6 a.m. CorCom is an apex body of six banned outlawed. The groups are – the Kangleipak Communist Party (KCP), Kanglei Yawol Kanna Lup (KYKL), People’s Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak (PREPAK), its Progressive faction (PREPAK-Pro), Revolutionary People’s Front (RPF, the political wing of the People’s Liberation Army- PLA), and United National Liberation Front (UNLF).