The North East Students Organisation (NESO) will continue to push for the implementation of the Inner Line Permit (ILP) across the remaining states of the region, accusing the Union government of committing “political injustice” by prioritizing the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) over the protection of indigenous communities.
The organisation reiterated its demand for the implementation of ILP in the remaining three states, alleging that the Centre’s approach undermines the interests of indigenous populations. Speaking to media persons in the state capital, NESO chairman Samuel Jyrwa expressed concern over the perceived reluctance to extend the ILP regime to Assam, Meghalaya and Tripura, framing it as a deliberate attempt to alter the demographic profile of the region and a failure to safeguard the “inner peoples” of the frontier amid continuing fears of illegal migration.
Speaking to media persons in Shillong, Jyrwa said “Instead of giving ILP, the centre is implementing the Citizenship Amendment Act to give citizenship to all the infiltrators, all the illegal Bangladeshi, who have entered here that they will become genuine citizens of the country. So this is against the interest of the indigenous people of the whole of North Eastern region, and this I feel that this is another political injustice that the government of India has been adopting against the inner peoples of the North East.”
Reiterating the organisation’s long-standing position, he said,
“NESO has been demanding for the implementation of ILP in whole of the North Eastern Region. Now the ILP is being implemented in only four states in North East and barring the states of Meghalaya, Assam and Tripura, in all other states the ILP is being implemented. But what we want is the implementation of ILP in the whole of North Eastern Region but the government of India, it seems that they don’t want to implement ilp in Meghalaya, We don’t know what is their agenda? What is the reason for not giving ILP in the state of Meghalaya or the state of Assam or Tripura.”
Asserting that the organisation will continue its efforts, he added “As NESO, We have been pushing and we’ll keep on pushing for the implementation of ILP and also for the recognition of our different languages, into the 8th schedule of the Constitution.”
