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[ Indu Chukhu ]<\/strong><\/p>\n ITANAGAR, 2 Mar:<\/strong> The Arunachal Christian Forum (ACF) on Sunday said that the Itanagar Capital Region (ICR) district administration has refused to give permission to the ACF to stage a dharna in front of the state assembly on 6 March against the Arunachal Pradesh Freedom of Religion Act (APFRA), 1978.<\/p>\n Speaking to mediapersons, ACF president Tarh Miri saidthat the programme was not given a no-objection certificate by the administration, citing an executive order issued by the district magistrate, Itanagar, on 5\/8\/2023.<\/p>\n The order read: “No permission for events, protests, rallies, etc, shall be granted seven (7) days before and during any national event, state event, or assembly session.”<\/p>\n “In compliance with the above order, this office is unable to issue the requested NOC for the peaceful dharna on 6\/3\/2025 within the Itanagar Capital Region jurisdiction,” it said.<\/p>\n The ACF criticised the authorities for not granting the permission.<\/p>\n “The government should not provoke us by not granting permission,” ACF general secretary James Techi Tara said.<\/p>\n “It is a peaceful democratic movement. We will meet the deputy commissioner again tomorrow (Monday),” he said.<\/p>\n The ACF had met Home Minister Mama Natung on 21 February, following a statewide protest on 17 February by the ACF against the APFRA.<\/p>\n “The home minister asked us to suggest amendments when we met him on the 21st. However, we had a meeting of all denominators on 27 February, where we decided that we would not accept any amendments. We want a complete repeal of the Act, and that is why we will continue our peaceful protest,” Miri said.<\/p>\n This development comes a day after the Indigenous Faith and Cultural Society of Arunachal Pradesh staged a march on Saturday, seeking the framing of rules for the APFRA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [ Indu Chukhu ] ITANAGAR, 2 Mar: The Arunachal Christian Forum (ACF) on Sunday said that the Itanagar Capital Region (ICR) district administration has refused to give permission to the ACF to stage a dharna in front of the state assembly on 6 March against the Arunachal Pradesh Freedom of Religion Act (APFRA), 1978. Speaking […]<\/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-259786","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\/259786","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=259786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}