Our Correspondent
Kohima | March 23
Nagaland BJP unit president Temjen Imna Along today expressed anguish that in the aftermath of the outbreak of COVID-19, “our brethren from Northeast India are discriminated in many ways in several parts of the country.”
“I am of the considered opinion that this racial prejudice against the Mongoloid people of the country is a result of sheer ignorance on the part of many of our mainland brethren, about the diversity of our great Nation. Ours is a nation of varied people having different cultures, religions, beliefs and social practices; ours is a unique bouquet comprising different flowers and plants, and this diversity is what makes Bharat vibrant , robust and charming in the comity of nations,” Along stated in a appeal.
He also expressed pain that a section of the citizenry should face harrowing experiences just because they look different; that some should be wrongfully and forcefully gurantined just because of their looks.
: After all, it is the Corona virus we must confront, and not the people, or the victims of the virus, for that matter,” he said.
He recalled that Prime Minister Narendra Modi said to the SAARC nations in a video conference recently, that “it is important for everyone to respond to the Corona pandemic by coming together, and not growing apart.”
Along appealed his fellow BJP presidents, to use their good offices, to create awareness about the importance of maintaining communal harmony amongst the diversity of people living in our great country in this extraordinary times, “because racial profiling can never bring our Nation together.”
Further, he stated that the need of the hour is to unite the people of India in the face of this catastrophe which has become pandemic in nature.
