Most of the people seeking to leave said they had no direct experience of a threat or violence against them. Raja Boro, a year-old from Assam who works in a multinational company, said he decided to leave along with nearly 80 people who stay in his apartment complex in south Bangalore till the situation improved.
Twenty people from 10 different associations, including the North East States Students Association, met Karnataka chief minister Shettar on Thursday and presented a list of cases for him to examine. Monika Khangembam, who heads a group founded to look into atrocities against north-eastern students, presented 25 cases of attacks against north-eastern students in Bangalore. All the cases given to the chief minister took place after the incident in Mumbai on Sunday, Khangembam said.
Shettar told the group that the state would assure full protection to people from the North-East, including the student community and the working class. These groups set up helplines and information desks, provided food and water, and staged a series of marches inside the railway station asking the people to stay back.
Pramod Mutalik, chief of the Rashtriya Hindu Sena, also made a brief appearance, and asked the north-easterners to stay back. Their return to the respective home may further escalate tensions between Bodos and minority communities in Assam. Another advisory pointed out that the people of the North-East had been subjected to assault in some areas of Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala. The Union government on Thursday sent a fresh advisory asking the chief ministers of Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh to hold peace meetings with all groups on the lines of one held in Karnataka.
According to a top official in the home ministry, the Centre has asked the state governments and the railways to provide security to Bodos travelling from Andhra Pradesh to Guwahati by train. The home ministry had alerted states about possible violence even before the Mumbai clashes. Mint has reviewed a copy of this note.
In Guwahati, Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi urged people not to rush back to their home states. Union minister M. Nobody should panic or succumb to the rumour-mongering. North-easterners from other states also travelled to Bangalore to catch trains back home. Manoj Narjari, a year-old from Assam who works as a security guard in Thalassery, Kerala, said he came to Bangalore four days ago along with 10 others after he was threatened by his employer. A year-old student from Darjeeling told state law minister Kumar that he decided to leave after a friend of his was slashed on the arm by two people late on Wednesday night.
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Share this Comment: Post to Twitter. Suresh Kumar also requested Shettar, who is in Delhi today, to urge Railways to arrange for as many special trains as possible to clear the rush as he expects more people from the North East to leave.
Anirban Das, a software engineer, said that he had decided to flee Bangalore after hearing rumours about the danger. The chief minister of Assam, Tarun Gogoi, said he was in touch with the Central government and other state governments "to ensure the security and safety of people from Assam". He also urged students to stay where they were and not return home. Tension in Bangalore, Pune calms down.
Home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde told reporters outside Parliament, "I request the nation through you, don't spread such rumours Karnataka chief minister Jagadish Shettar told representatives of northeastern organisations in Bangalore, "The entire government is with you. We will protect the interests of the northeastern people. How the panic spread First person:'Will marry, stay here' 'I don't want to be here' Assurances fail as NE people continue to flee. Share Via. Surely, Northeasterners in Mumbai had better cause to flee given the widely circulated images and video clips of militant Muslims on a rampage in the city.
Or perhaps in Delhi where people from the North-East face constant harassment and discrimination, and therefore are more likely to feel more insecure. Even Pune where there were actual attacks has not experienced any such exodus.
Bangalore, in contrast, has been entirely peaceful. However, as a precaution, police chiefs of all districts have been directed to take necessary steps to prevent such incidents," DG Pachuau said at a press conference barring the attack in Mysore on a Tibetan by unknown assailants, which he fails to mention.
Even so, everyone who looks even vaguely northeastern—be it Nepalis, Assamese, Nagas or Mizos—were quick to head to the train station. As of now, up to 6, of the 2. One possible answer is a systematic campaign to create fear, using social media, SMSes, and regional media to spread rumours of attacks.
There are no reports of similar campaigns in any city other than Bangalore. The Hindu reports : "When contacted, student unions, representing different northeastern communities, were unable to cite a single registered case of violence. However, they claimed that incidents of violence had been reported in Neelsandra, Anepalya and some parts of Wilson Garden and Ejipura.
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