From Our Special Correspondent
GUWAHATI: After taking over 2200 ILP (inner line permit) violators in the state to task during the first phase of Operation Clean Drive, the All Arunachal Pradesh Students’ Union (AAPSU) has decided to intensify its second phase in the coming days besides submitting a detailed report on strengthening the ILP system to the state government.
“The union during the consultative meeting with representatives of 22 district students’ unions and members of North East Students Organisation (NESO) in Itanagar announced that the second phase of Operation Clean Drive would be taken up more rigorously from house to house and village to village. The meeting reiterated the need for strict adherence of the directives to the units against ILP violators,” an AAPSU spokesperson told The Shillong Times on Saturday.
He said that the ILP Issue Committee would directly take stock of the situation and start the drive in any district with immediate effect if there was a need.
“Additional modalities in addition to the existing ones shall be adopted during the operation. Besides, the meeting decided to submit a detailed report, including suggestions to improve and strengthen the ILP system, to the state government,” the union’s spokesperson said.
Over 2,200 ILP violators detected during the first phase of the two-day operation carried out by the union across the state recently in the wake of the publication of the complete draft National Register of Citizens (NRC) in neighbouring Assam.
Apart from Arunachal, other states of the Northeast, including Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur and Mizoram too have conducted similar drives against “illegal migrants,” apprehending that there would be influx from Assam.
The union had demanded that ILP violators be immediately deported from the state and necessary action initiated under the provisions of the Bengal Eastern Frontier Regulation (BEFR) Act, 1873.
On the trucker union’s apprehensions against entering the state and subsequent protest at Missamari in Assam near the inter-state border recently, he said that the matter has been resolved by the West Kameng district administration.