AAPSU intensifies ‘Operation Clean Drive’ against ILP violators

Itanagar: All Arunachal Pradesh Students’ Union (AAPSU) has launched The ‘Operation Clean Drive’ against non-Arunachalees and illegal immigrants who don’t have inner line permits (ILP). AAPSU members bearing identity tags were checking every passing vehicle near the Raj Bhavan tri-junction on Friday Afternoon. They announced in Naharlagun, that those who didn’t have papers should leave the state.

The AAPSU asserted that more than 1000 ILP violators were driven out from the capital complex on Friday with the help of the police. Nevertheless, the police refuted the union’s claim.

According to Itanagar SP M Harsha Vardhan 134 people were captured without ILP in the capital on Friday and all of them were sent out of the state after subsequent and due legal process.Vardhan, however, recommended that any attempt to take the law into one’s hands would be handled sternly. AAPSU activists made it clear that it would continue with its drive today. He said “From tomorrow there will be zero tolerance and we have told them earlier also that only police and magistrate can check ILP. They have absolutely no authority to check ILP. They can inform us that there are people without ILP and the police will go and check,”

He further added that police have been working on the ILP violation issue for several years and from July 26 this year till yesterday it has detected and deported 875 violators.

The AAPSU declared its Operation Clean Drive just after the publication of the second draft of NRC in Assam on 30 July and asked all illegal immigrants to leave the state. AAPSU besides, alerted Indians who don’t possess ILPs should obtain it within 15 days or face deportation.

The union apprised that all the defaulters were handed over to the police for further legal action. The students also asked the police department and the district administration to stay watchful and keep out the ILP defaulters.

In the meantime, a joint team of Wancho Students’ Union (WSU) and Rujen Students’ Union (RSU) detected eight ILP violators and handed over to Kanubari police yesterday.