New Delhi: The India has said it wants to exile nearly 40,000 Rohingya Muslims who have fled the violence in Myanmar, but today, Home Minister Rajnath Singh led a large meeting to decide whether to grant citizenship to tens of thousands of Chakma refugees who are Buddhists based mainly in Arunachal Pradesh, The Chakmas are Buddhists; the Hajongs are Hindus, entered India through the then Lushai Hills district of Assam (now Mizoram) and were then moved to Arunachal Pradesh , According to officials, the number of these refugees has increased from about 5,000 in 1964-69 to 1, 00,000, The Chakma are an ethnic group who began fleeing in the 1960s to northeastern India from former East Pakistan, now Bangladesh, partly because they were being mistreated because of their religion, They are spread in Arunachal Pradesh, Tripura, Assam, Mizoram, Meghalaya and West Bengal as well as in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh and western parts of Myanmar.
Supreme Court ordered the government to grant citizenship to the Chakma and refused Arunachal Pradesh’s request to reconsider its judgment, Pema Khandu who was the state’s Chief Minister met with the Home Minister Kiren Rijiju today, says that recognising the Chakma as citizens would change the demography of the state, Student groups and others claim that if the Chakma are recognised as Indians, the indigenous tribes in the region will be reduced to a minority and will lose jobs and other opportunities to what they consider outsiders,They have few rights and many are not registered with the United Nations immigrant agency, which meant they were cut off from aid in the recent floods that inundation states like Assam after heavy monsoon rains have caused mighty rivers such as the Brahmaputra River and their tributaries to burst their banks, Like many other nations, India is concerned about illegal migrants with the possibility that they could pose security challenge, Enforcing the laws should not be mistaken for lack of kindness.