Aizawl: Chakma National Council in India (CNCI), based in Chawngte Mizoram, objected to the planned proposal of the Arunachal Pradesh government to move the Chakma and Hajong community from other state states.
The press statement issued by the Board on Friday night said several community-based organizations (CBO), under CNCI, together expressed solidarity with Chakmas and Hajong who lived in Arunachal Pradesh.
More than 40,000 members of the Hajong Chakma and Community were transferred during the construction of Kaptai Dam in East Pakistan, now Bangladesh.
Minister of Pradesh Minister Arunachal Pema Khandu while giving his independence speech in Itaganar on August 15 said Chakmas and Hajong would be transferred to other parts of the country.
It was also repeated by the law Minister Kiren Rijju on several occasions, the statement added.
“CBO Chakma from all over India states that the proposed plan has left the community in ‘shock and anger’, he said.
Chakmas and Hajong legally settled in Arunachal Pradesh by the Center Consultation with the Administration of the Northeast Border Agency Estan (NEFA), now Arunachal Pradesh, From 1964 to 69.
Land was allocated to them in consultations with local tribes, namely clearly in consonants with the Section 7 Regulation of East Bengal Frontier, 1873, CNCI said.
“The Supreme Court has stated its judgment not once but twice in 1996 and 2015 that Chakmas and Hajongs were given Indian citizenship in Arunachal Pradesh.
It is time for the center to fulfill the highest court orders in the country, “said the next statement.
The construction of the Hydropower 230-MW project, which made Chakmas and Hajong was transferred, finished in 1962.
Residents of the storage reservoir area lost their homes and agriculture because of flooding, but Not compensated.
The people who were transferred entered Mizoram as refugees and were transferred in Efa Istama, now Arunachal Pradesh.
The entry was more chakmas to Mizoram, after the movement by the majority of Bengali Muslims in Bangladesh, producing long-term demographic problems in Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh.
Mizoram’s body opposed Arunachal’s proposal to relocate Chakmas
