Guwahati, March 23 (MExN): The North East Students’ Organisation (NESO) today has strongly condemned what it termed “the recurring incidence of violence and discriminations due to physical appearance meted out to the indigenous peoples from the North Eastern states who are studying and working in different cities and parts of mainland India.”
Reports of violent attacks and racial discrimination against the students and public from the region has been on the rise from various parts of mainland India after the outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic, stated a press release from NESO Chairman, Samuel B. Jyrwa and Secretary General Sinam Prakash Singh.
This is the very least disheartening considering that the world at large is striving together to restrict the spread of deadly pandemic, it said.
Such treatments, NESO said, does not augur well for the diverse country that India is and causing mental distress of staying away from their love and dear ones.
In this connection, the organisation appealed the Central Government to put in place all necessary arrangements in order to ensure the physical and emotional wellbeing of the North East Community in various parts of the country.
Further, it suggested that the respective Chief Ministers of the North East states actively liaise with their counterparts in various states in-order to ensure that “the perpetrators of hate crimes from various parts of the country are brought to book and that futureoccurrences of such unwanted incidents are completely avoided.”
NESO is constituted by eight major students movement in the North East States namely - Khasi Students’ Union(KSU), All Assam Students’ Union (AASU), Naga Students’ Federation (NSF), Mizo Zirlai Pawl (MZP), Twipra Students’ Federation (TSF), All Manipur Students’ Union (AMSU), Garo Students’ Union (GSU) and All Arunachal Pradesh Students’ Union (AAPSU).
