Timeline of a shutdown

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The immediate catalyst for the tensions that lashed Manipur and Nagaland in recent months was the announcement, in April, of elections to the six Autonomous District Councils (ADCs) in the hill districts of Manipur. First created in 1968 under the Sixth Schedule of the Indian Constitution specifically for the hill districts of Manipur, the demand for these bodies led to the framing of the Manipur (Hill Areas) District Council Act in 1971. Yet elections to the councils, held every five years, last took place only in 1988 for Senapati and 1984 in the other hill districts.

In 2009, the Indigenous Democratic Front (IDF), a hill-based organisation, started to agitate for ADC elections to be held as soon as possible, in accordance with a 2008 amendment to the 1971 Act.

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