{"id":1746,"date":"2021-10-19T05:05:56","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T05:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/?p=1746"},"modified":"2021-10-23T06:39:49","modified_gmt":"2021-10-23T06:39:49","slug":"stop-racial-profiling-of-chakmas-cdfi-urges-arunachal-pradesh-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2021\/10\/19\/stop-racial-profiling-of-chakmas-cdfi-urges-arunachal-pradesh-government\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Stop racial profiling of Chakmas\u2019: CDFI urges Arunachal Pradesh government"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Chakma Development Foundation of India (CDFI) has urged the Arunachal Pradesh government to stop \u201cracial profiling of the Chakmas\u201d.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The CDFI has urged Arunachal Pradesh deputy chief minister Chowna Mein to intervene against \u201cracial profiling of the Chakmas in Arunachal Pradesh by conducting illegal and unconstitutional census of \u2018ONLY THE CHAKMAS\u2019 in the state\u201d, Northeast Now reported.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cConducting census of \u2018ONLY THE CHAKMAS\u2019 is nothing but an act of racial profiling in clear violation of the Article 14 of the Constitution of India and International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination ratified by India,\u201d stated Suhas Chakma, founder of the CDFI.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Suhas Chakma added: \u201cThe Chakmas of Arunachal Pradesh are citizens of India even though because of the discriminatory policies and practices of the Government of Arunachal Pradesh, their citizenship applications have not been processed in the last 25 years in contempt of the Supreme Court judgments while those who are citizens by birth under the Citizenship Act, 1955 are not included into the electoral rolls. There is no law or logic to conduct census of only one community.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CDFI stated that \u201cif the State of Arunachal Pradesh wants to conduct a census, it must conduct for the entire State for all irrespective of caste, creed or religion. But, the decision to conduct census of \u2018ONLY THE CHAKMAS\u2019 is illegal and unconstitutional and amounts to racial profiling.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Chakma body\u2019s appeal to the Arunachal Pradesh government comes just ahead of deputy CM Chowna Mein\u2019s visit of Chakma dominated areas in Diyun on Tuesday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The CDFI further sought the intervention of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, home minister Amit Shah, Arunachal Pradesh chief minister Pema Kandhu and RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chakma Development Foundation of India (CDFI) has urged the Arunachal Pradesh government to stop \u201cracial profiling of the Chakmas\u201d.&nbsp; The CDFI has urged Arunachal Pradesh deputy chief minister Chowna Mein to intervene against \u201cracial profiling of the Chakmas in Arunachal Pradesh by conducting illegal and unconstitutional census of \u2018ONLY THE CHAKMAS\u2019 in the state\u201d, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}