{"id":45194,"date":"2018-09-14T00:26:42","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T18:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=45194"},"modified":"2018-09-14T00:26:42","modified_gmt":"2018-09-13T18:56:42","slug":"forum-opposes-move-to-delete-naga-word-from-states-st-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2018\/09\/14\/forum-opposes-move-to-delete-naga-word-from-states-st-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Forum opposes move to delete &#8216;Naga&#8217; word from state&#8217;s ST list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>CHANGLANG, Sep 13:<\/strong> One Tirap Changlang Longding People&#8217;s Forum has expressed resentment over the move initiated by Lok Sabha MP Ninong Ering to delete the word &#8216;Naga&#8217;, used to describe the native people of Tirap, Changlang and Longding (TCL) districts, from the state&#8217;s ST list.<br \/>\nIn a press release, the forum on Thursday said it is strongly opposed to any such move.<br \/>\n&#8220;We vehemently oppose any individual\/entity trying to distort our history, culture, tradition and custom for cheap political gain.<br \/>\nThe term &#8216;any Naga tribe&#8217; should be replaced by recognizing the Nagas of Arunachal Pradesh as Tangsa Naga, Nocte Naga, Wancho Naga, Tutsa Naga and Olio Naga etc,&#8221; it stated.<br \/>\nQuestioning the motive behind &#8220;the assumed urgency on the part of Ering to initiate the move,&#8221; the forum sought to know why the MP decided to take up the issue after a lapse of five years, &#8220;after his first attempts, in May 2013 and June 2013, respectively, when he met former union tribal affairs minister V Kishore Chandra S Deo and appealed to him to delete the term &#8216;any Naga tribe&#8217;.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe forum appealed to the elected representatives of TCL districts to immediately take up the issue with the National Commission for Scheduled Tribes and the union tribal affairs ministry &#8220;and apprise them of the facts.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHANGLANG, Sep 13: One Tirap Changlang Longding People&#8217;s Forum has expressed resentment over the move initiated by Lok Sabha MP Ninong Ering to delete the word &#8216;Naga&#8217;, used to describe the native people of Tirap, Changlang and Longding (TCL) districts, from the state&#8217;s ST list. In a press release, the forum on Thursday said it [&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-45194","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\/45194","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=45194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}