North-East people Fear

  BANGALORE STATION

 BANGALORE STATION

CHENNAI STATION

Why we are behaving like foreigner, don't act in this way because we are INDIAN and we will be INDIAN. if there is anything goes wrong for us than there is people should be accountable for us. don't go anywhere which you are living for your parent's 

Fear-struck people from the north-East continued to flee the city for the second day on Thursday as the Karnataka government assured them safety and launched confidence building measures, including police patrolling in areas largely inhabited by them.

A day after 6,800 people from the north-East left the city by jam-packed trains, the main railway station here was chock-a-block with hundreds from the region eager to return to their homes, in the backdrop of rumours of an impending attack on them in the aftermath of the Assam violence.

"There is nothing to worry. The entire government is with you. We will protect the interests of the north-East people," Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar told representatives of organisations of people from the region at his official residence.

Taking serious note of the attacks on students and professionals from the North East in some parts of the country as a fall out of the recent clash between indigenous Bodos and Bangladeshi migrants in Assam, Lok Sabha MP from Inner Manipur, Dr T Meinya has urged the Union Home Ministry to look into the matter and deal with it immediately.

which has never seen non-locals fleeing the region for fear of their lives — continued to witness the unprecedented exodus of citizens from the Northeast on Thursday, with thousands from Chennai too rushing to the railway station to take the train home.

In Bangalore, where it all began, their flight continued unabated with 7,500 more people boarding four Guwahati-bound trains — three special trains apart from the regular Bangalore-Guwahati Express.

On Thursday evening, nearly 3,000 workers and students, mostly from Assam, were seen waiting at Chennai Central, eager to board the two Guwahati-bound trains that were scheduled for departure at 2 a.m. and 4 a.m. on Friday. A number of them had arrived from Coimbatore and Madurai.

“Nothing has happened till now, but we are very sure something really bad is going to happen. Our Bangalore friends have said we have to leave before August 20,” said Bishnu, 21, who hails from Dibrugarh and works as a waiter in a restaurant in Chennai.