ITANAGAR, Mar 15 (UNI) The impasse over Chakma-Hajong refugee issue in Arunachal Pradesh today took a new twist with the apex students body, All Arunachal Pradesh Students Union (AAPSU), deciding to boycott the forthcoming Parliamentary elections on May five next.
The decision to this effect came in the backdrop of the Election Commission's directive to enroll 1,497 Chakma and Hajong refugees residing in Lohit and Changlang districts in the electoral rolls and to empower them with voting rights.
The apex student's body in an emergency meeting held here last night decided to boycott the coming Lok Sabha polls and to take every possible step to keep the people away from the election process.
The AAPSU also declared to try all means to close down all the central establishments in the state.
The students body also decided not to entertain any national holidays in the state and to challenge the Election Commission's directive in the country's apex court.
The union in a release said instead of deporting the refugees from the state, the Election Commission and the centre were taking its course ignoring the demand of indigenous people of the state.
Demanding resignation of Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of Arunachal Pradesh for 'compromising' with the voice of the people to save his position, the AAPSU observed that "it was a great insult to the state."
