{"id":198165,"date":"2022-08-18T00:15:59","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T18:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=198165"},"modified":"2022-08-18T00:15:59","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T18:45:59","slug":"mizoram-student-body-demands-withdrawal-of-caa-afspa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/08\/18\/mizoram-student-body-demands-withdrawal-of-caa-afspa\/","title":{"rendered":"Mizoram student body demands withdrawal of CAA, AFSPA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Aizawl, Aug 17 (PTI) Mizoram&#8217;s apex student body Mizo Zirlai Pawl (MZP) on Wednesday staged a demonstration in Aizawl demanding withdrawal of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The protest was made in response to a call given by the North East Students&#8217; Organisation (NESO), the umbrella body of major student bodies in the eight North-eastern states.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the sit-in held at the MZP office here, supporters of the organisation demanded that the Centre revoke CAA and AFSPA from the region.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It also asked the central government to resolve the inter-state boundary disputes in the Northeast and the problems faced by the states of the region along the international border.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The MZP demanded that an education policy be framed to suit the culture of the people of the region.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Its other demands included providing relief to the Myanmarese refugees staying in the Northeast and declaration of a separate time zone and special employment zone for the Northeast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aizawl, Aug 17 (PTI) Mizoram&#8217;s apex student body Mizo Zirlai Pawl (MZP) on Wednesday staged a demonstration in Aizawl demanding withdrawal of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act. The protest was made in response to a call given by the North East Students&#8217; Organisation (NESO), the umbrella body of major [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-198165","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-north-east"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198165","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=198165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}