Chakma-Hajong are guests in Arunachal, to be settled in Assam soon: Rijiju
More than 67,000 people of Chakma and Hajong communities presently settled in Arunachal Pradesh will be resettled in Assam.
This was stated by Union minister for earth science Kiren Rijiju at a press conference in Itanagar on Monday.
The Chakmas, mostly Buddhists, settled in Arunachal Pradesh in the 1960s when parts of the Chittagong Hill Tracts in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) where they originally lived were submerged by a dam. The Hindu Hajongs had migrated from East Pakistan around the same time because of alleged religious persecution.
“They are staying here as guests. They are not entitled to get a permanent resident certificate (PRC) of citizenship here,” Rijiju said in the presence of Arunachal Pradesh home minister Bamang Felix and BJP MLA from Itanagar, Techi Kacho.
“The Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) is a blessing for Arunachal Pradesh. It is out of the purview of Arunachal Pradesh. The CAA grants citizenship to non-Muslim migrants — Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, Parsis and Christians — from the three countries. So we will not grant them citizenship or permanent residents here,” Rijiju also said.
“We have already talked to the Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma about the resettlement of Chakmas in Assam. It is a big issue. There is also resistance from local residents here,” the Union minister said.
“We also initiated talked with Union Home Minister Amit Shah. But we don’t want to make We have been trying for their resettlement for the past three years. We are looking for suitable land for it. When we will get land we will tell them to leave here,” he said.
“We have been working silently on the issue and and Assam government has been urged to identify an appropriate location for their relocation,” he further said.
“I think Chakma and Hajongs should sit somewhere in India, but not in Arunachal Pradesh,” he added.
In 1996, the Supreme Court directed the Centre and the Arunachal Pradesh governments to grant citizenship to Chakma and Hajongs. Still, the state government has refused to accept the judgment and has refused to implement it.
In August 2022, the Arunachal Pradesh government announced that it would no longer be issuing “residence proof certificates” to the Chakma and Hajong refugees in Changlang district following opposition by the All Arunachal Pradesh Students Union (AAPSU).
As they do not have the “proof of residence” Chakmas and Hajongs are not Indian citizens and, therefore, are ineligible for official identification documents. The residential proof certificates which were issued by an extra assistant commissioner (EEAC) of Changlang district were also suspended from his service.
On April 24, 2023, Arunachal Pradesh chief minister Pema Khandu announced that after resolving the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh boundary dispute, he will resolve the Chakma Hajong problem by distributing them in different states of India as the Chakmas and Hajongs being refugees cannot be permanently settled in the state, which is protected as a tribal state under the Constitution of India.
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Who has given him the right to say all these. has he started thinking as his own property
I have no any relationship with them but I know they are human beings, may be ugly or not photogenic, must have originated from somewhere under the sky, may be ethnic or nomadic, now you and our land, fully packed with ethnic minorities, at the same time you and me are ethnic minorities, tried to build a nation but didn’t completed yet…. but need to survive and should go forward towards the goal, what’s your future, what path do we have to pave for our younger generations out of these interferences…????
Why Assam? We have already faced illegal immigration all these years. I don’t think the people of Assam will accept this as a solution.
HAHAHA Jealousy scared little rats of Arunachal. we’ll be successful and we’ll be respected again. we chakmas ain’t no low level people to accept what you jealousy brats try to scares us off. we’ll come big and we’ll do it the right way.
but govt. decided to settle them in Assam and it is the sad part.
My question is “Why always Assam choosen for practicals? ”
Is it because of our own people who think of ownselves….
Right
They can be settled in Mankachar dist of Assam. We welcome the move.
Aditya Hazarika, why don’t you let them settle in your own land? Idiot
land of Arunachal is solely demarcated for the locals of the state. And we locals we never tolerate immigrants with permanent resident certificate or CAA.
Tibetian Rijiju will say any against chakma during election time for gaining political power.
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