A press note from the Naga Hoho stated that the “decision of excluding” people from the Northeast at the hotel “no doubt comes from a top level, be it the Chinese or the Indian security agencies.” “Whichever agency has imposed this segregationist order… shouldn’t let go as a forgivable error,” it stated. It further lamented that the incident amounts to “racial discrimination.”
The Naga Hoho further urged the Ministry of Home Affairs to initiate a probe and take appropriate action and measures immediately. While stating that a lot has been said regarding the “successful visit” of the Chinese Premier to India, the Naga Hoho questioned whether “the prohibitory orders issued against people from the Northeast... has been included in the successful lists of rolls.”
The Naga Hoho stated that “whenever any national party leaders land up in Nagaland as well as North East region, they are the number one who will praise the hospitality of all of us, exclaiming at the top of their appreciation, how we are gifted in greeting guest, taking good care of them and the likes.” It further said that many programmes have been carried out in the past decade in the hospitality sector where people from the Northeast undergo training in the hospitality sector “in collaboration with private as well as government institutions all over the country.” It called upon the “institutions to share their solidarity and opinions with us in such racist related orders and assure us that no such stay away orders is imparted in their syllabus…”
While scrutinizing the whole episode and the “mindset of the people in main land India,” the Naga Hoho stated: “we feel that the struggle for self determination in the NE region by different political groups is genuinely justified.”
Source: Morung Express
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