{"id":274539,"date":"2025-12-01T01:34:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T20:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=274539"},"modified":"2025-12-01T01:34:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T20:04:27","slug":"focus-on-ilp-not-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2025\/12\/01\/focus-on-ilp-not-religion\/","title":{"rendered":"Focus on ILP, not religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Editor,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Recent viral videos showing youths bullying Muslim residents and forcing them out of masjids are deeply concerning. If anyone in Arunachal is living without valid documents, the law is clear: the inner line permit (ILP) is mandatory for every non-Arunachali, regardless of religion, be it Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, or others.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Instead of proper ILP checking, the issue is being turned into a communal one. Targeting a single community or forcing people to chant slogans like &#8216;Bharat mata ki jai&#8217; is unacceptable and goes against the values of our state. Patriotism cannot be demanded or tested on the street.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Migrants without ILP exist across communities. Making this a religious issue harms Arunachal&#8217;s image and risks creating backlash against Northeasterners elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This must remain an immigration and documentation issue, not a communal one. The rule is simple: check the ILP, not the religion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Anonymous<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor, Recent viral videos showing youths bullying Muslim residents and forcing them out of masjids are deeply concerning. If anyone in Arunachal is living without valid documents, the law is clear: the inner line permit (ILP) is mandatory for every non-Arunachali, regardless of religion, be it Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, or others. Instead of proper ILP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-274539","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-readers-forum"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274539","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=274539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}