AIZAWL, May 30 -- The Forum for Protection of Non-Mizos has claimed that Mizoram-based students' body, Young Mizo Association (YMA), on May 15 last issued a warning to around 91 non-Mizo businessmen to shut down their business estalishments.

The Forum for Protection of Non-Mizos said that 91 shops, mostly belongly to Bengali and Hindi speaking people, have been closed in Mizoram.

The forum in a press conference in Assam's Silchar claimed that YMA's notice, written in Mizo language, asked all the businessmen, mostly Bengali and Hindi speaking, to close their shops immediately.

"Following the notice, all the 91 shops have been closed and the other shopkeepers are afraid that they might face the same in future," said Sankar Dey, chief of ...