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Chakma, Hajong citizenship: Arunachal students' union hold protests
September 19, 2017
The All Arunachal Pradesh Students' Union protests in Itanagar against the move to grant citizenship to Chakma and Hajong refugees. The union also called for a 12-hour-strike against the move.
This comes in the aftermath of Union Minister Kiren Rijiju said that the Centre would urge the Supreme
Court to modify its order of granting citizenship to Chakma-Hajong
refugees so that the rights of the indigenous people of Arunachal
Pradesh are not diluted.
"There is no decision of the Government
of India to grant citizenship. It is the order of the Supreme Court. We
are trying to tell the honourable Supreme Court that giving Chakmas and
Hajongs the same rights as Arunachali is not acceptable to us," he said.
"People of Arunachal must appreciate that for the first time that the
Government of India has not agreed.... So we are appealing to the apex
court to modify this order... to ensure that rights of the indigenous
people of Arunachal Pradesh are protected," the Minister of State for
Home Affairs has said.
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