BJP demands potent law
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, February 11 2014:
The BJP Manipur unit has demanded enactment of a powerful law during the ongoing Parliament session in order to check continuous harassment and discrimination of people from the North East region at Delhi and other major cities of India.
Nido Tania, student and son of an MLA from Arunachal Pradesh was lynched to death on January 29 and it was followed by a brutal rape of a woman.
Before this, two Manipuri women were brutally assaulted in full public view and another boy from the State was stabbed this morning.
Taking strong exception to these series of assaults, all of which smacked of racism, BJP State unit led by its president Th Chaoba staged a protest demonstration in front of their office at Nityaipat Chuthek today.
Asserting that people from the North East region should not be made subjects of racial discrimination, the BJP State unit demanded a strong and powerful law which can effectively check all kinds of racial discrimination targeting people from the North East.
Speaking to reporters by the sideline of the protest demonstration, Th Chaoba said that the protest demonstration was organised so that it may serve as a precursor of a strong mass movement against murder, rape, physical assault and mental harassment of North East people at Delhi and other cities of India.
If the local people continue to hunt down and kill people from the North East at the national capital, all the Northeasterners staying at Delhi would be compelled to come back to the respective States but India would never be complete without the North East region.
Even as people from the North East region are being made subjects of racial discrimination for the last 66 years since India achieved independence, the ruling party which has been in power for a prolonged period is still unable to enact an appropriate and effective law which can address this scourge of racism, Chaoba said.
Saying that Chief Minister O Ibobi's meeting with Union Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde about the disturbing incidents unfolding at Delhi was too late, Chaoba alleged that Ibobi's reluctance to convene an all party meeting to discuss the issue only exposed his lack of interest in the issue.
He also questioned the silence and inaction of MPs elected from the region on the issue even though they constitute a small minority in both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha.