IT News
Imphal, May 15,
Terming the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill as another agenda to suppress the voice and to violate the rights of the Indigenous people North East Dialogue Forum has urges both the Government of India and the Government of Assam to withdraw the Bill.
In a press statement, the Forum said that since the last many decades the Indigenous people inhabited in the North East are threatened in their own land due to the domination by the large number of illegal migrants from the neighboring countries which the Government of India had failed to control during the time of migration.
“Citizenship (Amendment) Bill is another agenda to suppress the voice and to violate the rights of the Indigenous people by violating the United Nations Declaration on Rights of the Indigenous People, 2007 by granting citizenship to persons belonging to minority communities namely Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh which is a clear threat to Self Determination over the Indigenous people’s land”, the Forum stated.
The statement further added that based on Assam Accord, at the intervention of the Supreme Court of India and on the instruction of the Central government, the Government of Assam is engaged in intensive updating of the National Register for Citizens (NRC) to include people permanently residing in the state till 24th March 1971 and to treat them alone as genuine citizens of the country.
The Forum also condemn the updating of NRC in Assam as it will give another threat to the Indigenous People of Assam and North East in general. The Forum blamed the Government of India over failure to recognize and protect the rights of the Indigenous people but. It said considering the illegal migrants as the citizen of India is a clear violation of Rights of the Indigenous people.
