SHILLONG: The State Women’s Commission and Chief Minister Mukul Sangma have condemned the incident of discrimination against Tailin Lyngdoh at the Delhi Golf Club on June 25.
While the chairperson of the women’s commission, Theilin Phanbuh, will hold a meeting with various women’s groups in the city on Wednesday, the chief minister, who is camping in Delhi, came down heavily on the discrimination against the Khasi woman calling it “unacceptable, distasteful and racial behaviour”.
The women’s commission will write to the Union Home Ministry
and other related ministries after the meeting.
“This incident of racial behaviour of the people who do not understand the very spirit of the inclusiveness of this nation is unacceptable, distasteful and racial discrimination that needs to be condemned by one and all and calls for all necessary action as per the law of the land,” Sangma told the media in Delhi.
The chief minister also urged Kiren Rijiju, Minister of State for Home, and the Ministry of Home Affairs to pursue the issue of atrocities against the scheduled tribe woman and have a suo motu case registered. He also asked them to take all legal options available so that it becomes a strong deterrence in future.
According to Sangma, such ‘racial discrimination’ has been happening all these years in a number of places and June 25 incident was not an isolated one.
He said that all legal options available according to Scheduled Tribe Prevention of Atrocities Act, 1989 and Fundamental Rights with its relevant Articles should be explored so that such behaviour is not repeated in future.
