IT News
Imphal, Dec 27:
President of Federation of Hoamee Sapamcha Jadumani today clarified that he had no intention to humiliate the drivers community of the state neither he had insulted them while speaking to the discussion hour at ISTV discussion hour.
“If my words hurt the sentiment of any drivers or driver community I request to all the drivers to forgive me”, Jadumani said in a press statement today.
He however said that he only gave his comment to what went wrong to the accident which killed 9 persons including 7 students so that no such accident occurred in future. He further said that he had great respect for the driver community and he too understand how drivers of the state braves for transportation of essential commodities during hard time . He also reminded how he along with his team when he was the President of the UCM had rescued drivers who were kept captive at Senapati district during blockade at National High ways.
He said that the 21-12 accident which happened near Longsai Village shock the people of the state. A Team of the Federation of Haomee had visited the accident site on December 23 . He also stated that the government need to find out whether the accident happened due to speed drive and failure to control the bus or is it because of the road condition and to award punishment to whoever was responsible.
He however said that there are some drivers who had illegally brought outsiders to the state. Some drivers were caught for smuggling alcohol, drugs and others. The authority should check such drivers.
Jadumani said that , The FoH condole the demise of the 9 people and share the pain of the family members of the deceased as well as those injured in the unfortunate incident.