{"id":274531,"date":"2025-11-30T01:59:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T20:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=274531"},"modified":"2025-11-30T01:59:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T20:29:13","slug":"ifcsap-withdraws-agitation-following-govt-assurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2025\/11\/30\/ifcsap-withdraws-agitation-following-govt-assurance\/","title":{"rendered":"IFCSAP withdraws agitation following govt assurance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, 29 Nov:<\/strong> The Indigenous Faith and Cultural Society of Arunachal Pradesh (IFCSAP) has withdrawn its third phase of statewide agitation after receiving a positive assurance from the state government on framing and notifying the long-pending rules of the Arunachal Pradesh Freedom of Religion Act (APFRA), 1978.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">IFCSAP president Dr Emi Rumi announced the withdrawal of the agitation on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Members of the IFCSAP had observed a &#8216;maun vrat&#8217; (silent protest) at the tennis court here on 27 and 28 November as a mark of peaceful dissent against the government&#8217;s delay in framing and notifying the rules of the APFRA, 1978.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">IFCSAP members and supporters sat in complete silence for 12 hours each day, wearing black badges to symbolise their protest.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The IFCSAP acknowledged the government&#8217;s assurance as a constructive step, and expressed hope that the APFRA rules would now be notified without further delay.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The organisation reiterated that its agitation was aimed solely at ensuring the operationalisation of the long-dormant Act, which has remained ineffective for decades due to the absence of notified rules.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Expressing gratitude to its supporters statewide for their solidarity, the IFCSAP emphasised that, while the third phase of agitation has been withdrawn, it remains committed to monitoring the government&#8217;s follow-up action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, 29 Nov: The Indigenous Faith and Cultural Society of Arunachal Pradesh (IFCSAP) has withdrawn its third phase of statewide agitation after receiving a positive assurance from the state government on framing and notifying the long-pending rules of the Arunachal Pradesh Freedom of Religion Act (APFRA), 1978. IFCSAP president Dr Emi Rumi announced the withdrawal [&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-274531","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\/274531","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=274531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}