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> Title: Issue regarding incidents of attack on people of North-East residing in different states.

*DR. THOKCHOM MEINYA (INNER MANIPUR): As a consequence of the unfortunate incident that took place in Assam, we are now experiencing sporadic violent incidents in many parts of the country, particularly in Maharashtra.  Students and people from the North-East are attacked without any rhyme or reason.  Not only in Maharashtra, we have seen such incidents taking place in Andhra Pradesh and Kerala.  If such things are not controlled immediately, they may spark bigger problems throughout the country. I would like to bring to your notice that some anti-social elements used very obnoxious language and I would also like to quote it here, “Don’t leave any Chinki” that means not to leave any person with Mongoloid features.  In fact, people from North-Eastern States including Sikkim who are living in other parts of the country face a lot of problems.  One boy who hails from my constituency is studying in Pune College and he works at night in a shoe factory and when he came back from his work at night he was surrounded by some anti-social elements and enquired whether he is from Assam; before he could reply he was beaten up so badly and he is still in hospital.  In another incident a man who came back from his work at around 10 pm, he was also beaten up severely.  Some few days back, in Kerala, two Assamese labourers who were trying to board a Guwahati bound train at Ernakulam Junction were attacked by a mob and they were seriously injured.