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Is Assam in India, city students asked at Taj Mahal
Assam Tribune | New Delhi, Jan 28
The Centre’s bid to allay apprehensions of facing harassment has fallen flat on its face, with authorities in Agra attempting to prevent entry of a group of students of Handique Girls’ College to the Taj Mahal, levelling them as foreigners.
When the students flanked their college identity cards, the officials said though the college identity cards affirmed that they were from Assam, nowhere on the cards was written that Assam is in India!
North easterners in the national capital at times face humiliation and often face uneasy questions about their nationality. A girl from Arunachal Pradesh was humiliated during the Republic Day Parade at Rajpath, when crowds in a gallery where she was seated harassed her, asking how a foreigner (Chinese) was given ticket to sit in a gallery meant for Indians.
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* This Post is uploaded on 29 January, 2015
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