Bid to deport 60,000 "Chakmas" from Arunachal slammed

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23-Aug-21

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Chakma organisations have slammed the proposed deportation of 60,000 people belonging to the Chakma and Hajong communities from Arunachal Pradesh.
They have also said other States in India, specifically Assam, must not be the dumping ground of “unwanted people of the Northeast” although 94% of the Chakmas and Hajongs settled in present-day Arunachal Pradesh by the Government of India in the 1960s are Indians by birth.
In a statement on August 23, the Chakma Rights and Development Organisation (CRDO) expressed concern over Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu’s Independence Day speech and Law and Justice Minister Kiren Rijiju’s ‘warnings’ during his ‘Jan Ashirvad Yatra’ in the State.
The Chakma and Hajong people were brought by the Government of India from Chittagong Hill Tracts (now in Bangladesh) 1,200 km away from 1964-68 and rehabilitated in the North East Frontier Agency (NEFA) that became Arunachal Pradesh later on, the CRDO said.
The New Delhi-based Chakma Development Foundation of India (CDFI) submitted a memorandum to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Mr. Shah, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagat, Mr. Khandu and Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma rejecting the resettlement plan.
94% of the Chakmas and Hajongs in Arunachal Pradesh were Indian citizens by birth and that Mr. Rijiju was wrong in saying the Citizenship (Amendment) Act of 2019 was enacted to overrule the Supreme Court’s 1996 judgment granting citizenship to the Chakmas and Hajongs.