Amid demand for enacting an Anti-Racism Law to protect rights of North East people, Rahul Gandhi today said the Centre is working towards giving certain minimum rights and security to people of the region all over India.
"You should not only be having these rights in places you belong to like Meghalaya, Tripura and Assam but in the whole of India," Gandhi said as he interacted with tribal leaders in Diphu.
The interaction also saw the participants raising the issue of the death of Arunachal Pradesh youth Nido Taniam after being allegedly beaten up by some shopkeepers in the national capital some time back.
Acknowledging that there is a discrimination against students from North East, Gandhi said, "We, at the Centre, are working towards giving certain minimum rights and security to people that one should have in the whole of India. You should not only be having these rights in the places you belong to like Meghalaya, Tripura and Assam but in the whole of India."
During the interaction, Gandhi talked at length on the issue of corruption and made a strong pitch for opening up the processes in the political system as a solution to it.