India, Oct. 2 -- A Kuki-Zo group has called for a 12-hour shutdown along National Highway-2 (Imphal-Dimapur) from 6 am Friday to press its demand for a 'separate administration'.

The Committee on Tribal Integrity (CoTU), a Kuki-Zo body, which has been demanding 'separate administration', has called for the shutdown. CoTU has been observing the third day of every month as "separation day" since May 3 violence occurred in Manipur.

"The Committee would observe this coming 3rd October 2025 as Separation Day with full fervor to remind the Government of India that the Kuki-Zo community have been physically and demographically separated from the majoritarian Meitei community", a statement issued by the group on Wednesday said.

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