The North East Students Organisation (NESO) Thursday
demanded intervention of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Home Minister
Sushilkumar Shinde to ensure security to the people of the northeastern
region residing in different parts of the country.
NESO, an
umbrella organisation of different students unions of the northeastern
states, also appealed to all state governments to take immediate and
effective measures for "mental, physical and social security" of the
people from the region.
"We demand proper and swift high level
enquiry of the ongoing incidents and to give exemplary punishments to
the criminals associated," NESO's secretary general Gumjum Haider said.
NESO
also demanded proper security for safe return of the people, and
immediate measures for creating comfortable and secured environment for
the people in trauma and danger.
"It is a matter of serious
concerns that in the last few days, there has been frequent unwanted
incidents of killing, assaults, and threatening on the people of
northeastern region in various parts of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and
Maharashtra," Haider said.
Saying that the situation has become
serious, he pointed out that there have been frequent incidents of
discrimination, atrocities faced by people from the northeast studying
or living in various parts of the country.
The students' outfit
also threatened that it would not allow illegal "foreigners" to stay in
northeast. "We will not allow illegal foreigners and they must leave
this region," Haider said.
