The United Nation Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) has asked for a report from India on the steps taken to prevent deportation or relocation of the Chakma and Hajong communities out of Arunachal Pradesh.
Arunachal Pradesh chief minister Pema Khandu while delivering his Independence Day speech on August 15 had said the Chakmas and Hajongs will be relocated to other parts of the country.
As per sources, Arunachal Pradesh government proposed to deportation of 60,000 people belonging to the Chakma and Hajong communities to Hailakandi district of Assam. The Chakma organisations have opposed the proposed deportation of 60,000. Chakma and Hajongs fear retribution from local people of Assam.
The Chakma National Council of India (CNCI) based in Mizoram’s Chawngte, objected to the Arunachal Pradesh government’s proposed plan to relocate Chakma and Hajong Communities from the states.
The CNCI in a statement said the Chakma and Hajong had been legally settled in Arunachal Pradesh by the centre in consultation with erstwhile North East Frontier Agency (NEFA) administration, now Arunachal Pradesh, from 1664 to 1669. The Supreme Court has pronounced its judgement not once but twice in 1996 and in 2015 that Chakmas and Hajongs be granted Indian Citizenship with the state Arunachal Pradesh.
