Itanagar: The All Nyishi Students’ Union (ANSU) has declared a 12 hours bandh call on 27 of December over the alleged lacksidal attitude of the government over the ongoing investigation of the Arunachal Pradesh Public Service Commission (APPSC) examination paper leak issue.
Speaking to journalists at the Arunachal Press Club today, ANSU vice-president Rahim Yangfo, who is also the chairman of the committee pursuing the issue, expressed dissatisfaction over the lacksidal attitude of the government regarding the memorandum it had placed on behalf of the aspirants before the chief minister’s office on December 3.
Yangfo declared that the ANSU will fight for the cause as long as it exists, stating that it is an issue that affects the entire state and its future.
“We have been fighting this battle for many months, have organised many rallies, but none of the points have been adressed yet,” he alleged.
“ANSU had promised to not let this issue die away and now we have come at the end of the road,” Yangfo said.
He requested the public to support them and said that if this issue is not resolved this time around, there is no use of studying anymore and that people will not want to study.
” This issue is about our future. This sense of emergency should be felt in every household,” he added.
He said that this will be the first of many bandh calls, likening it to a “test” that more bandh calls will be declared in next year.
He said that the people are being “led astray and treated as fools.”
Yangfo also assured that there is no motive to destroy public property and that the fight is only for indigenous rights.
He also asked the people joining in the protest to stay away from “anti-social elements and to not politicise the issue”.
Paramilitary, police personnel, emergency medical services and administration, and pharmacists are exempted from the bandh.
