NIPCO flays
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, January 17 2015 :
The National Identity Protection Commitee (NIPCO), in press release issued its secretary, expressed strong disapproval of the statement made by the Union Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Rathore at the Inter State Students Exchange Programme held at New Delhi on January 15 regarding 'isolation' of of North East ; citizens at the mainland.
The Minister had, in his speech, articulated that the case of the so called isolation occurs at both ends.
Alleging that the Minister's statement alluded to the Centre's partial attitude towards the North Eastern States of India, the committee said that Rathore's statement made clear that the Centre sees the NE only as a mere geographical possesion of the country and nothing else.