{"id":87295,"date":"2019-12-09T02:50:15","date_gmt":"2019-12-08T21:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=87295"},"modified":"2019-12-09T02:50:15","modified_gmt":"2019-12-08T21:20:15","slug":"surname-adoption-in-arunachal-stirs-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/12\/09\/surname-adoption-in-arunachal-stirs-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"Surname adoption in Arunachal stirs controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Staff Reporter<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>ITANAGAR, Dec 8:<\/strong> In an unusual development, a person identified as Nizam Ali recently changed his name to Atul Rabha. The change of name was published in this daily as a classified advertisement.<br \/>\nThe advertisement, which had been published based on the affidavits signed by Aalo (West Siang) Executive Magistrate K Tikhak in September 2019, has stirred a controversy as the man&#8217;s new surname entitles him to obtain scheduled tribe (ST) status in Assam.<br \/>\nRabha is an ST in Lower Assam, along the boundary with Meghalaya.<br \/>\nSpeaking to this daily, Tikhak confirmed that he verified Ali&#8217;s affidavits after Ali had produced his Aadhaar card in support.<br \/>\n&#8220;He produced his Aadhaar card in support of his claim, and it was certified by an advocate. I have never said that he should be given tribal status. He swore in the affidavit before me, in the presence of the advocate&#8221; the EAC said.<br \/>\nOn being contacted, Nizam Ali @ Atul Rabha confessed that his late father, Mofiz Ali, was a resident of Masigaon village in Silapathar, in Dhemaji district of Assam. His said his mother remarried, and that his stepfather is a Rabha.<br \/>\n&#8220;At the insistence of my siblings from my Rabha father, I adopted the surname and changed my name,&#8221; said Ali @ Rabha.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Reporter ITANAGAR, Dec 8: In an unusual development, a person identified as Nizam Ali recently changed his name to Atul Rabha. The change of name was published in this daily as a classified advertisement. The advertisement, which had been published based on the affidavits signed by Aalo (West Siang) Executive Magistrate K Tikhak in [&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-87295","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\/87295","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=87295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}