{"id":13601,"date":"2025-09-04T17:00:40","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T17:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aguli.in\/?p=13601"},"modified":"2025-09-04T17:00:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T17:00:41","slug":"tsf-and-mla-paul-dangshu-slam-centres-notification-extending-cut-off-date-for-refugees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aguli.in\/index.php\/2025\/09\/04\/tsf-and-mla-paul-dangshu-slam-centres-notification-extending-cut-off-date-for-refugees\/","title":{"rendered":"TSF and MLA Paul Dangshu Slam Centre\u2019s Notification Extending Cut-off Date for Refugees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Agartala, September 4, 2025:<\/strong> The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) notification issued on September 1, 2025, under the Immigration and Foreigners Act, has sparked sharp criticism in Tripura. The order allows persons belonging to minority communities from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Pakistan including Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis, and Christians who entered India on or before December 31, 2024, to be exempted from certain provisions related to valid travel documents, making them eligible to seek Indian citizenship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Twipra Students\u2019 Federation (TSF)<\/strong>, in a strongly worded press release, condemned the move, describing it as an attempt to \u201clegitimize refugees and illegal immigrants.\u201d The student body argued that by extending the cut-off year from 2014 to 2024, the Centre is threatening the demographic balance, identity, and existence of the Indigenous People of Tripura and the Northeast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cFrom the very beginning, TSF has stood firmly against granting citizenship to refugees and illegal immigrants, and we had strongly resisted the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) as well. This notification is unacceptable, and we demand its immediate withdrawal,\u201d TSF leaders Hamalu Jamatia and Samrat Debbarma stated. They also warned of a large-scale democratic protest movement if the government fails to heed the concerns of Indigenous communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adding his voice to the opposition, MLA Paul Dangshu<\/strong> took to social media, calling the decision \u201cdeeply concerning and difficult to comprehend.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cIn one of my Assembly speeches, I had said that the Indigenous people of Tripura are facing systematic discrimination and marginalisation, and this decision once again reinforces that reality,\u201d Dangshu wrote. He questioned how undocumented entrants could be verified as belonging to persecuted minority communities and suggested that if the Centre truly wished to accommodate them, they should be settled in states like Gujarat, \u201cthe home state of many national leaders.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dangshu further warned that the Northeast has \u201cborne the burden of unchecked migration for far too long,\u201d and allowing undocumented migrants to stay will worsen competition for land, employment, and essential resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf people are able to stay in India without valid documentation, then what purpose is our border security even serving?\u201d he asked, pointing out that while Western nations are tightening their borders, India appears to be \u201copening its doors without question.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With opposition mounting from both student groups and political leaders, the MHA\u2019s notification is likely to face sustained resistance in Tripura and other Northeastern states where concerns over demographic changes remain highly sensitive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Agartala, September 4, 2025: The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) notification issued on September 1, 2025, under the Immigration and Foreigners Act, has sparked sharp criticism in Tripura. The order allows persons belonging to minority communities from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Pakistan including Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis, and Christians who entered India on or before […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":13605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[75,73],"tags":[1283,2337,655],"ppma_author":[1174],"class_list":{"0":"post-13601","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national","8":"category-tripura","9":"tag-mla-paul-dangshu","10":"tag-refugees","11":"tag-tsf"},"authors":[{"term_id":1174,"user_id":33,"is_guest":0,"slug":"kamaljamatia","display_name":"kamal jamatia","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/564a074770eb17d36f3af441d462b8a2a809599748f74220740b1d3b52879fcf?s=96&d=https%3A%2F%2Faguli.in%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2024%2F07%2FPHOTO-2023-09-14-08-30-32-3.jpg&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aguli.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aguli.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aguli.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aguli.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aguli.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aguli.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13606,"href":"https:\/\/aguli.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13601\/revisions\/13606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aguli.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aguli.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aguli.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aguli.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13601"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aguli.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=13601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}