AAPSU stages dharna, talks with govt fails

Itanagar, Oct 26 (UNI) Marking the beginning of the sixth session of the Fourth Legislative Assembly, the All Arunachal Pradesh Students' Union (AAPSU) today staged a peaceful dharna in front of the legislature pressing for immediate fulfilment of its three-point charter.

The apex students' body of the state, supported by Arunachal Citizen Rights(ACR), Nefa Indigenous Human Rights Organisation (NIHRO), All Arunachal Pradesh Women Welfare Society (AAPWWS) and other students' body shouted slogans demanding the state government cancel all "illegal appointments", withdraw cabinet decision to grant schedule tribe status to Mishings and reveal the findings of the one-man commission constituted to probe the Donyi Polo raffle scam.

The state government had requested the students' organisation to withdraw its agitational programmes and invited them for talks.

After two rounds of talks yesterday, both the parties did not reach any positive outcome.

Talking to UNI, AAPSU president Kanu Bagang and general secretary Ojing Tasing said as the meeting failed, they decided to go for dharna.

''We are not satisfied by the state government's assurances,'' Mr Bagang commented, adding, ''We would resort to our second phase of agitation by calling a 12-hour capital bandh on November 7.'' ''We are demanding blanket ban on all the appointments made illegally in Group A and B posts and the government re-draw the lottery,'' Mr Tasing said.

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