Mass movement by Christian Forum in Arunachal Pradesh on June 18

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ITANAGAR: The Arunachal Christian Forum (ACF) will organize a 'state-wide' mass movement on 18 June 2022, reiterating its demand to resolve the Tawang church issue.

On 17 May 2022, ACF had served 15 days ultimatum to the state government threatening to organize a 'state-wide' mass movement demanding to publish or provide the committee's status report so necessary action can be initiated to resolve the issue.

Addressing a press conference at the press club here on Friday, ACF president Toko Teki said, "The state government has failed to address our demand within the stipulated period which has led us to stage 'state-wide' mass movement which was unanimously decided among representatives of all denominations of the Christian community of the state in a meeting held on 16 May 2022".

Staging dharna in front of the Deputy Commissioner (DC) office of all districts on 18 June 2022, voicing our demand will be our initial fight. If the state government fails to address our demand even after the mass movement we will take the issue to the Court, he added.

Teki appealed to all district units of the forum to disseminate information among the Christian community regarding the mass movement.

He also said that the Christian community has been appealing to the State Government for an immediate and peaceful resolution of the Tawang church matter since 2020 through the submission of various representatives to the state government and the chairman of the committee.

As per air news, it is known that the committee has submitted its final report to the state government, but we have not received any such yet. We hope that the state government will address positively to our demand, he added.

Meanwhile, ACF GS Tarh Miri informed that since 9 September 2020, the forum has been submitting various representations to the state government demanding to resolve the Tawang church issue. The forum had staged a peaceful protest at IG Park here on 2 November 2020 demanding the same.

Accordingly, on 12 November 2020, the state government formed a committee under the chairmanship of Environment and Forest Minister Mama Natung to resolve the issue, he added.

He also informed that the forum has submitted various letters on different dates to the Chief Minister Pema Khandu and the chairman of the committee requesting to publish or provide the committee's status report so necessary action can be initiated to resolve the issue.

Earlier, ACF had submitted a memorandum claiming that the church was established in 1999 and a request for allotment of land was submitted in 2003 to the state government.

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