Flashback September 1994
Mizo House Unanimous on Continuance of ILR
The Mizoram Legislative Assembly in an unanimous resolution has stressed the Bengal Eastern Frontier Regulation, 1873, popularly called the Inner Line Regulation, should continue to remain in force in Mizoram.
In an emergent one – day session summoned by the Governor at the request of the joint committee of all political parties in the state on August 26, all the 40 legislators expressed concern and dismay that the Centre was stated to be contemplating on revocation of the ILR.
If the Inner Line Regulation was removed, some members argued, people from other parts of India would enter Mizoram in masses and the identity of the Mizos would be swamped in no time.
The Mizos doubtless wanted development but certainly not at the cost of their identity, others said. A former Speaker of the Assembly recalled that when India got independence, there was a high – level meeting between the Mizo National Party and the Centre where it was suggested that if the Mizos felt that their identity was not secure in independent India, they might secede from the Indian Union after ten years.
The resolution while stressing that the Bengal Eastern Frontier Regulation, 1873 (V of 1873) as amended by the Bengal Eastern Frontier (Amendment) Regulation, 1925 (V of 1925) should continue to remain in force in Mizoram said that this provision was not only protected by Article 372 of the Constitution but the accord signed between the Centre and the Mizo National Front on June 30, 1986, also provided that the ILR would not be amended or repealed without consulting the state government.
In an emergent one – day session summoned by the Governor at the request of the joint committee of all political parties in the state on August 26, all the 40 legislators expressed concern and dismay that the Centre was stated to be contemplating on revocation of the ILR.
If the Inner Line Regulation was removed, some members argued, people from other parts of India would enter Mizoram in masses and the identity of the Mizos would be swamped in no time.
The Mizos doubtless wanted development but certainly not at the cost of their identity, others said. A former Speaker of the Assembly recalled that when India got independence, there was a high – level meeting between the Mizo National Party and the Centre where it was suggested that if the Mizos felt that their identity was not secure in independent India, they might secede from the Indian Union after ten years.
The resolution while stressing that the Bengal Eastern Frontier Regulation, 1873 (V of 1873) as amended by the Bengal Eastern Frontier (Amendment) Regulation, 1925 (V of 1925) should continue to remain in force in Mizoram said that this provision was not only protected by Article 372 of the Constitution but the accord signed between the Centre and the Mizo National Front on June 30, 1986, also provided that the ILR would not be amended or repealed without consulting the state government.
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