: Arunachal chief minister’s threat to remove Chakmas and Hajongs is the long tail of the Assam Accord #IndiaNEWS In his Independence Day speech, Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu claimed

Arunachal chief minister’s threat to remove Chakmas and Hajongs is the long tail of the Assam Accord #IndiaNEWS
In his Independence Day speech, Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu claimed that members of the Chakma and Hajong communities were “illegal migrants??? who needed to be shifted out of the state because they were not tribals. The Chakmas and Hajongs were displaced by the construction of the Kaptai Dam in the Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh in 1957. In the 1960s, the Indian state settled them legally in the territory now known as Arunachal Pradesh. The local people treated them like any other indigenous people of the state. Despite this, Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju has expressed the same sentiment as Khandu in public gatherings and TV interviews. Rijiju has even claimed that the passage of the Citizenship Amendment Act 2019 by the Central government has annulled Supreme Court judgements of 1996 and 2015 that favoured granting citizenship to the Chakmas and Hajongs. Rights taken away Till 1980, Chakmas and Hajongs could get government jobs, ration cards and access other rights and privileges just like Indian citizens. They were also given trading licences, agricultural assistance and more. But that year, their rights were taken away. From the 1990s, they were branded as illegal migrants. In September 1994, Gegong Apang, the Arunachal chief minister at...Read more

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