NE Support group alleges diversion of North East issue
Source: Hueiyen News Service / NNN

Imphal, August 23 2012: The North East Support Centre and Helpline based in New Delhi has alleged that the issue of North East Indians fleeing from mega cities of India not resolved and the parliamentarians have diverted the issue with CAG report.

The nation is yet to establish the trust among the North East Indian communities, it added.

According to Madhu Chandra of the Centre, the sympathy shown by all the political parties, particularly by the Bharatiya Janta Party's (BJP) opposition leaders - Ms Sushma Swaraj of Lokh Sabha and Arun Jaitley of Rajya Sabha has turned to be just "Crocodile tear sympathy." The hate rumour against the North East Indian communities, fleeing for safety with fear of being attacked, not sorted out.

The BJP with current issue of CAG crisis has diverted the issue, the NE Support Centre stated.

The government of India still needs to reveal the invisible forces operating within India and take action upon them, while taking the suspects from neighbouring country, according to the North East Support Centre.

"The hate campaign rumour has fuelled the hatred against the people from North East India in Delhi and NCR.

Some section of the society in Delhi and NCR have been discriminating and attacking the North East communities for last few years.

The girls and women from North East have been easily targeted for sexual violence.

The young boys working at the private companies have been discriminated by refusing to pay their salary, suspended from the work without any reason given.

The recent attack in Kotla Mubharak, New Delhi is the consequences of the hate rumour," it added.

The Support Centre also said the North East Support Centre and Helpline strongly believes that the racial hatred against the North East people in Delhi and NCR will increase as consequences of the hate rumour.

The certain section of the Indian society looks at the North East communities from caste perspectives.

The tribal and scheduled caste communities and mongoloid looking faces are never considered as party of Indian society as caste system.

The North East people are socially profiled as polluting people, not part of Indian society, strangers in their own nation, and cheap people, it added.

People cannot change this mindset and continue to profile the North East communities.

It does not matter by socio-economic status, educational qualification, the place of birth that one may have.

What one look like is enough to be treated unequal and easy target, the Centre further added.

The government of India and the law enforcing agencies must not end by shedding the crocodile tear but engage to bring a long-term solution.

The crocodile tear kind of attitude will alienate people of North East Indian from mainstream of life, Madhu Chandra said.

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