Shillong, Aug. 16: North East students community studying in Bangalore have literally shut themselves up in their residences for fear of being attacked as a repercussion to the communal clash between tribal Bodos and migrant Bangladeshis in Assam.
Around five thousand people hailing from north east have reportedly left the city for fear of being attacked.
Karnataka chief minister Jagadish Shettar has called a high level meeting on Thursday to tackle the situation of the mass exodus of the people hailing from the seven north eastern states.
A student from Shillong studying in the CMR Institute of Management Studies in Bangalore said, “Students from the north east studying in different educational institutions in Bangalore have stopped going to colleges for fear of being assaulted.”
Panic gripped the north east students studying in Bangalore after the attacks on students of the region in Pune and also in Mangalore when a Tibetan student was mistaken for a north easterner and knifed in Mangalore.
Five thousand people from north east India reportedly left the city for fear of being attacked. IT professional Sushma Chettri, who hails from Shillong, working with a multi-national IT company in Bangalore says, “Fear is certainly playing havoc as students community from north east are leaving in hordes.”
Leaders of different student unions of the north east are meeting Karnataka chief minister Jagadish Shettar over the issue. The Bangalore Thangkul Students Union president told Oh!Meghalaya over the phone on Thursday, “The leaders of all the students union of the north east based in Bangalore will be meeting the chief minister and discuss about the entire issue.”
Meanwhile BJP president Nitin Gadkhari has assured in Delhi that the BJP ruled state of Karnataka informed that he had spoken to the Karnataka chief minister and the latter had assured him that there was not a single incident of attack on the NE students studying in Karnataka. He said, “My government in Karnataka will protect the students and people studying and working in Karnataka. – By Our Reporters
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