{"id":57843,"date":"2019-01-20T00:45:36","date_gmt":"2019-01-19T19:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=57843"},"modified":"2019-01-20T00:45:36","modified_gmt":"2019-01-19T19:15:36","slug":"forum-reiterates-demand-for-cm-dcm-to-withdraw-statements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/01\/20\/forum-reiterates-demand-for-cm-dcm-to-withdraw-statements\/","title":{"rendered":"Forum reiterates demand for CM, DCM to withdraw statements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<strong>ITANAGAR, Jan 19:<\/strong> The United Arunachal Indigenous People&#8217;s Forum (UAIPF) on Saturday reiterated its demand that Chief Minister Pema Khandu and Deputy CM Chowna Mein withdraw their statements regarding issuing PRCs as a &#8220;new year gift&#8221; to the non-indigenous people settled in Lekang in Namsai district.<br \/>\nAddressing media persons at the press club here, UAIPF president Laffe Paffa said legislators, &#8220;including former minister Bida Taku, should stop playing with the sentiments of the indigenous people for their votebank politics.&#8221;<br \/>\nPaffa also questioned the state government&#8217;s silence over the bandh imposed recently, and over the threat of an economic blockade issued by agitating non-APST communities in Lekang.<br \/>\n&#8220;If the state government can invoke the Arunachal Pradesh Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act 2014 against the indigenous people, why are the non-APST people of Lekang being given undue freedom to carry out their agitation?&#8221; he said.<br \/>\nCiting the Bengal Eastern Frontier Regulation (BEFR) Act 1873, the forum said any administrative order, certificate or document issued in contravention of the act &#8220;is liable to cancellation, including the joint high power committee or cabinet decisions on PRC.&#8221;<br \/>\nStating that the BEFR Act was enacted in 1873, the UAIPF president said the members of the six non-indigenous agitating communities should &#8220;make copies of their pedigree history public to ascertain whether their claims are genuine or not.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe forum further said it is liable to undertake &#8220;non-cooperation and social movements&#8221; against the state government if the government fails to honour the sentiments of its own people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, Jan 19: The United Arunachal Indigenous People&#8217;s Forum (UAIPF) on Saturday reiterated its demand that Chief Minister Pema Khandu and Deputy CM Chowna Mein withdraw their statements regarding issuing PRCs as a &#8220;new year gift&#8221; to the non-indigenous people settled in Lekang in Namsai district. Addressing media persons at the press club here, UAIPF [&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-57843","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\/57843","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=57843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}