{"id":139168,"date":"2020-10-09T01:26:16","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T19:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=139168"},"modified":"2020-10-09T01:26:16","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T19:56:16","slug":"acf-appeals-to-cm-to-resolve-tawang-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/10\/09\/acf-appeals-to-cm-to-resolve-tawang-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"ACF appeals to CM to resolve Tawang incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, Oct 8:<\/strong> Stating that &#8220;the recent incident in Tawang has sent a very wrong message outside the state that could dent its hard-earned image and glory as an island of peace,&#8221; Arunachal Christian Forum (ACF) chief adviser Khyoda Apik has appealed to the state government to resolve the issue amicably.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I make a fervent appeal to state governor and particularly to chief minister Pema Khanduji, who belongs to Tawang district, to resolve this issue amicably, so that the state could maintain its image,&#8221; Apik told the media on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;India is a secular but the largest democratic country in the world whose constitution guarantees freedom to its citizens to practice any religion or culture, irrespective of race, caste or language,&#8221; Apik said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He also urged Christian groups and associations to not take any step that would hurt others&#8217; sentiments, and not to resort to using print, electronic and social media to raise any religious issue that would create &#8220;more ambiguity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I appeal to all Arunachalee brethren to adopt a pan-Arunachal identity as &#8216;one state, one people&#8217;, lest our future generations curse us for our present misgivings,&#8221; Apik added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, Oct 8: Stating that &#8220;the recent incident in Tawang has sent a very wrong message outside the state that could dent its hard-earned image and glory as an island of peace,&#8221; Arunachal Christian Forum (ACF) chief adviser Khyoda Apik has appealed to the state government to resolve the issue amicably. &#8220;I make a fervent [&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-139168","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\/139168","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=139168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}