Describing residents of the seven North-Eastern States as “prisoners of their own frontiers,” Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju called for a two-pronged approach to end the “isolation” of the States.
“Internally, we urgently require the integration of our own country. Often a small law and order incident is made out to be a major racial incident,” he said.
Mr. Rijiju was speaking on the Modi government’s “Look East Act East policy” at Pune’s Symbiosis University. “The only way to ‘Look East’ is through North-East India, yet there is a strong disconnect between the people of North-East India and New Delhi,” the Minister said. “The people of the North-East are unable to articulate their problems and feel like prisoners of their own frontiers.”
Published - December 15, 2014 08:32 pm IST
