- NET Web Desk
The apex students’ body, All-Arunachal Pradesh Students Union (AAPSU) have forwarded a 15-days ultimatum to the BJP-led state government for conducting a census of Chakma & Hajong refugees.
This move came during the wake of racial profiling charges of Buddhist Chakmas & Hindu Hajongs refugees.
According to the students’ body, state government had stopped the exercise, after receiving a letter from the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO).
“The enumeration process of the refugees should continue as usual, and the Arunachal Pradesh government not to succumb to intervention from external forces.” – urged the AAPSU General Secretary Tabom Dai.
Its worthy to note that Buddhist Chakmas & Hindu Hajongs had been settled in the northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh in 1960s, after facing religious persecution across East Pakistan, which has been renamed as Bangladesh.
Earlier, the Chakma Development Foundation of India (CDFI) through its petition to Prime Minister Modi & RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat, had alleged about racial profiling of 65,000 Chakmas and Hajongs in Arunachal Pradesh.
“This exclusive census is an act of racial profiling as only the Chakmas and Hajongs are being singled out. Arunachal shares its borders with China and Myanmar from where illegal migration has been taking place since independence,” CDFI chairman Suhas Chakma said.
AAPSU during the press conference, also sought to know the current status of Assam & Arunachal Pradesh border row, and called-for deployment of security forces along sensitive areas.
