Arunachal students’ body demands refugee census despite PMO’s veto
The Hindu
A foundation had petitioned the PMO saying the exclusive census was nothing but racial profiling of the Chakmas and Hajongs settled in the State
The apex students’ body of Arunachal Pradesh has set a 15-day deadline for the Pema Khandu Government to conduct an exclusive census of the Chakma and Hajong refugees.
The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) had asked the State Government to take appropriate action after a petition from the Chakma Development Foundation of India (CDFI) said such an exercise was nothing but racial profiling aimed at throwing the refugees out of Arunachal Pradesh.
The Buddhist Chakmas and Hindu Hajongs, displaced by a dam in erstwhile East Pakistan and subsequent religious persecution, had been settled in Arunachal Pradesh in the 1960s. Indigenous communities have been demanding their ouster.
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