Thursday, July 16, 2009

AAPSU files PIL against the Election Commission’s guideline

Gauhati, July 11, 2009 (UJI): On June 9, 2009 last, the All Arunachal Pradesh Student Union (AAPSU) has filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) at the Gauhati High Court against the Election Commission’s guidelines terming that the Chakma refugees of Arunachal Pradesh (AP) included in the electoral roll as illegal. On 23 March 2005, the Election Commission of India passed specific guidelines (No 23/ARUN/2004-PLN-II) for enrollment of the eligible Chakma and Hajong voters during Intensive Revision.

In the PIL stated that the Election Commission not only trying to include those refugees who had entered India in 1964-65 and their descendants, but also those who have come thereafter to the state.

The AAPSU also accused to Mr. Dorjee Khandu, Chief Minister of AP and his Government that trying to help the refugees. Mr. Doorje was sworn on April 9, 2007 as 5th Chief Minister. He belongs to Monpa Buddhist indigenous tribe of hilly state.

The Supreme Court order in between the National Human Rights Commission vs. State Government of AP which issued on 9 January 1996 that the Court's decision included three mandates: (1) the end to illegal evictions of Chakmas and Hajongs from their homes; (2) the protection--by paramilitary means if necessary--of Chakmas and Hajongs from threats by citizen groups; and (3) the termination of any substantive role for local administrators in deciding the citizenship status of Chakmas and Hajongs.

In the mean times, Mr. Subimal Bikash Chakma, Mr. Ajay Sen Chakma and Mr. Santosh Chakma on behalf of the Citizenship Demand Right Committee for Chakmas and Hajongs (CDRCCH), moved toward the Gauhati High Court in order to assist and support in all possible regards to the Election Commission.

Mr. Subimal Bikash Chakma, President of the CDRCCH, appealed to all National and International Human Rights Organizations and groups that for asking humanitarian justices who are suffering as stateless for about last 45 years and also by the barbarian AAPSU activists backed by the dictatorship and narrow minded political leader Mr. Gegong Apang.

He also appealed to the International Chakma community, who are residing different corner of the globe for asking support and assist, especially finance to move at the Gauhati High Court in order to protect about 80, 000 (approximately) the innocent Chakmas and Hajongs of AP.

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