Kimin row | Arunachal college students’ body files complaint against BRO
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The All Arunachal Pradesh Students’ Union has lodged a primary data report against officers of the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) for passing off the State’s Kimin city as a part of Assam throughout Defence Minister Rajnath Singh’s programme on June 17.
The FIR that named BRO Chief Engineer Pramod Kumar and different officers of the organisation based mostly in Kimin was lodged on the Itanagar police station on June 22.
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Kimin, about 75 km from Itanagar, is in Papum Pare district of Arunachal Pradesh. However, the BRO had, in the course of the inauguration of 12 highway tasks by Mr. Singh, allegedly handed off the place as Bilgarh in Assam.
“We have demanded an inquiry into what compelled the BRO to hide the name of Kimin and Arunachal Pradesh during the event of national importance that the Defence Minister attended,” the union’s president Hawa Bagang stated.
The union has additionally set a 10-day deadline for the BRO to apologise to the folks of the State for the “grave error, deliberate or otherwise”.
The union stated its members would gherao the camps of General Reserve Engineer Force throughout the State if the BRO did not apologise throughout the stipulated interval. The officers may additionally be requested to go away the State, it added.
The union’s normal secretary Tobom Dai stated the BRO “sabotaged” the territorial integrity of Arunachal Pradesh that has had boundary disputes with Assam. The disputes are in court docket.
“The BRO’s act was intended to create dispute between the neighbours and also to disrupt the federal set-up of the country,” he stated.
Mr. Singh had visited Kimin every week in the past to inaugurate the 20-km-long Kimin-Potin highway and 11 different BRO tasks throughout the nation, together with one every within the Union Territories of Ladakh and Jammu & Kashmir.
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