{"id":93378,"date":"2020-02-14T02:02:50","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T20:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=93378"},"modified":"2020-02-14T02:02:50","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T20:32:50","slug":"apcc-to-protest-against-bjps-stand-on-reservation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/02\/14\/apcc-to-protest-against-bjps-stand-on-reservation\/","title":{"rendered":"APCC to protest against BJP&#8217;s stand on reservation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, Feb 13:<\/strong> The Arunachal Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) has said it will stage a peaceful protest at the IG Park tennis court here on 15 February against the BJP&#8217;s &#8220;unconstitutional stand and attacking provision of reservations for the scheduled tribes (ST) and other communities.&#8221;<br \/>\nUnderscoring the fact that the northeastern states are predominantly inhabited by tribal people, the APCC said &#8220;the BJP has been systematically attacking provision of reservations for ST and other communities through various statements and actions for the last many years.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;The BJP government has shown its true colour and taken unconstitutional stand claiming that there is &#8216;no fundamental right to claim reservation in appointments to public posts&#8217; and &#8216;there is no constitutional duty on the part of state government to provide reservations,'&#8221; the APCC said in a press release on Thursday.<br \/>\nClaiming that the BJP and the Sangh Parivar&#8217;s ideologies are against reservation and against various sections of the society, the Congress party said it is committed to protect the rights of the indigenous people and protest against the &#8220;draconian move.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe peaceful protest is scheduled to start at 9:30 am.<br \/>\nThe APCC will also submit a memorandum to the governor, it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, Feb 13: The Arunachal Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) has said it will stage a peaceful protest at the IG Park tennis court here on 15 February against the BJP&#8217;s &#8220;unconstitutional stand and attacking provision of reservations for the scheduled tribes (ST) and other communities.&#8221; Underscoring the fact that the northeastern states are predominantly inhabited [&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-93378","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\/93378","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=93378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}