Two days after Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu claimed that the Chakma and Hajong refugees were creating law and order problems, the Chakma National Council of India (CNCI) asked him to stop his ‘malicious propaganda’ of projecting all Chakmas in the state as criminals.
‘Mongering hate towards the Chakmas of Arunachal Pradesh across the state and categorizing them as criminals is now long past its sell-by-date and it would really be irrational of the Chief Minister to think that this agenda of his would really be of any help in the present time and also in the future to his overall cause of solving the vexed Chakma issue,’ Prahlad Chakma, vice-president of the CNCI said.
The CNCI leader, in a statement issued from New Delhi also asked CM Khandu to stand by his oath of ‘raj dharma’ and said that members of the Chakma community were the ‘most peaceful’ people. ‘Had the chief minister stood by his oath of Raj Dharma, he would have easily seen that the Chakma community has been one of the most peaceful and peace-loving communities in the country,’ the CNCI statement said.
