New Delhi: The Central Government on Monday promised to investigate allegations of racist treatment to a woman from Manipur.
“We have received a report that a Manipuri girl who was going to South Korea was misbehaved and racially targeted. We have got a report that Delhi Airport Immigration officer misbehaved with her…so we have asked for details. There will be probe in this matter. Action will be taken as and when details are given to us,” Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju told the press.
Minister of State in Prime Minister's Office Jitendra Singh said the Centre did not “approve of such conduct”.
“In the last two years ever since the present government took over under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, not only there has been developmental works in North-East but there has been an outreach at the social and cultural level to bring North-east as close as possible to the mainstream of India. Therefore, it is for all of us to realize that the people of North-East are as much Indians as any one of us,” he said.
“This is also an occasion to reassure friends and fellow citizens of North-East that the government of the day doesn't approve of such kind of conduct coming forth from any quarter,” he said.
A woman from Maipur recently accused the immigration desk of the Indira Gandhi International Airport of racism.
She said she was planned to write to the External Affairs Ministry about the incident.
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj apologised in her Twitter posts.
“Monika Khangembam — I am sorry to know this. Immigration is not with me. I will speak to my senior colleague Shri @rajnathsingh ji to sensitise Immigration officials at the airport.”
In a Facebook post on July 9, Monika Khangembam claimed she was subjected to harassment by a “racist” immigration desk.
11/07/16 Tribune
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“We have received a report that a Manipuri girl who was going to South Korea was misbehaved and racially targeted. We have got a report that Delhi Airport Immigration officer misbehaved with her…so we have asked for details. There will be probe in this matter. Action will be taken as and when details are given to us,” Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju told the press.
Minister of State in Prime Minister's Office Jitendra Singh said the Centre did not “approve of such conduct”.
“In the last two years ever since the present government took over under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, not only there has been developmental works in North-East but there has been an outreach at the social and cultural level to bring North-east as close as possible to the mainstream of India. Therefore, it is for all of us to realize that the people of North-East are as much Indians as any one of us,” he said.
“This is also an occasion to reassure friends and fellow citizens of North-East that the government of the day doesn't approve of such kind of conduct coming forth from any quarter,” he said.
A woman from Maipur recently accused the immigration desk of the Indira Gandhi International Airport of racism.
She said she was planned to write to the External Affairs Ministry about the incident.
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj apologised in her Twitter posts.
“Monika Khangembam — I am sorry to know this. Immigration is not with me. I will speak to my senior colleague Shri @rajnathsingh ji to sensitise Immigration officials at the airport.”
In a Facebook post on July 9, Monika Khangembam claimed she was subjected to harassment by a “racist” immigration desk.
11/07/16 Tribune
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