{"id":143443,"date":"2020-12-02T01:32:35","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T20:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=143443"},"modified":"2020-12-02T01:32:35","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T20:02:35","slug":"tawang-church-issue-not-a-religious-issue-but-a-land-issue-khandu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/12\/02\/tawang-church-issue-not-a-religious-issue-but-a-land-issue-khandu\/","title":{"rendered":"Tawang church issue not a religious issue but a land issue: Khandu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Staff Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, Dec 1:<\/strong> Chief Minister Pema Khandu said that the Tawang church issue is not a religious issue but a land issue.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He was responding to queries from reporters after the Indigenous Faith Day celebration at the indigenous affairs department ground here on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;First of all, it is not a religious issue. This is totally a land matter, but people are calling it the &#8216;church issue&#8217; and giving it a religious angle,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;India as a whole and Arunachal particularly is a very secular state. It is basically a land issue, but since the matter has moved far ahead, the government has constituted a committee, which has been directed to submit its finding within six months,&#8221; the CM said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On 6 October, Tawang Revival church pastor Joseph Singhi was arrested by the Tawang police on the basis of an FIR lodged by the district land revenue &amp; survey officer, allegedly for illegally constructing a church.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The incident sparked widespread condemnation from the Christian community in the state.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On 12 November, the state government constituted a three-member committee, headed by WRD Minister Mama Natung, to work out a solution to the Tawang church issue. The other members are MLAs Nyamar Karbak and Nyato Dukam.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As per the order issued by the political department, the team will assess the ground situation and hold detailed discussions with all the stakeholders.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The committee will suggest ways and means to find a solution to the current impasse in order to ensure peace and harmony in the state. It will also devise a suitable mechanism for peaceful implementation of the arrived solution and submit its findings within six months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Reporter ITANAGAR, Dec 1: Chief Minister Pema Khandu said that the Tawang church issue is not a religious issue but a land issue. He was responding to queries from reporters after the Indigenous Faith Day celebration at the indigenous affairs department ground here on Tuesday. &#8220;First of all, it is not a religious issue. [&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-143443","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\/143443","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=143443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}