Itanagar (Arunachal Pradesh) [India], Sept.8 (ANI): The Congress Party in Arunachal Pradesh has said that it will soon call on Tibetan spiritual leader, The Dalai Lama, to apprise him about what it termed the Centre’s flawed Tibetan Rehabilitation Policy (TRP), announced in 2014.
The president of the state Congress unit, Takam Sanjoy, said that Arunachal Pradesh being a predominately tribal state and protected by constitutional safeguards such as the Bengal Eastern Frontier Regulation, 1873 (ILP) and the Chin Hills Regulation, 1896, cannot be equated with Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, New Delhi and Uttarakhand, which have decided to adopt the TRP policy.
He told ANI that the above two Acts do not permit Indians to enter this state or have any rights on land acquisition or to conduct businesses, and warned of a socio-economic tsunami should the TRP be implemented.
Cautioning the state government not to forget the ordeal of Chakma-Hajong refugees, he warned that the implementation of the TRP adopted by the BJP-led state government might have a negative fallout on the indigenous people of Arunachal Pradesh, who are protected by numerous constitutional provisions.
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