{"id":13622,"date":"2017-12-23T01:35:39","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T20:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=13622"},"modified":"2017-12-23T01:35:39","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T20:05:39","slug":"alsu-announces-chakka-bandh-at-state-secretariat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2017\/12\/23\/alsu-announces-chakka-bandh-at-state-secretariat\/","title":{"rendered":"ALSU announces chakka bandh at state secretariat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Staff Reporter<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>ITANAGAR, Dec 22:<\/strong> The Arunachal Law Students&#8217; Union (ALSU) has said it will launch a chakka bandh at the state secretariat here on 27 December from 9 am to 4 pm to protest the alleged non-responsive stance of the state government towards the union&#8217;s long list of demands.<br \/>\nAddressing media persons at the press club here on Friday, ALSU President Romik Jogu claimed that the union has in the last 9 months submitted several representations to the chief minister and the governor, but there has been no response from the state government, which prompted the union to take the step.<br \/>\nSpeaking about the union&#8217;s demands, which include repeal of the Arunachal Pradesh Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 2014, formulation of a Forest Act, making the state guest house functional, implementation of Lokayukta in the state, establishment of a juvenile home, and others, Jogu claimed that despite being important issues of public interest, the state government has chosen to ignore the demands.<br \/>\nHighlighting the negative aspect of the Arunachal Pradesh Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, Jogu said: &#8220;It is too harsh a legislation, which could be misused by the authority to suppress the fundamental rights of the citizen.&#8221;<br \/>\nHe said that the law is contradictory to the constitution and ought to be repealed immediately.<br \/>\nRegarding the state guest house, Jogu said that, despite being inaugurated on 7 April, it has yet to become functional.<br \/>\n&#8220;There seems to be no viable reason with the state government for converting the former official residence of the chief minister to a state guest house,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\nHe further said that the state government needs to formulate a Forest and Land Law legislation at the earliest to properly organize the state&#8217;s forest resources and solve the boundary issue &#8220;in order to ensure overall development of the people and their socioeconomic condition.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe ALSU president also highlighted the need to implement a Lokayukta court and establishing more juvenile homes in the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Reporter ITANAGAR, Dec 22: The Arunachal Law Students&#8217; Union (ALSU) has said it will launch a chakka bandh at the state secretariat here on 27 December from 9 am to 4 pm to protest the alleged non-responsive stance of the state government towards the union&#8217;s long list of demands. Addressing media persons at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13622","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}