Guwahati: Over 100 citizens of Guwahati have shot off an appeal to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in connection with the June 26 incident in the Delhi Golf Club where a Khasi lady, Tailin Lyngdoh, was humiliated for wearing here traditional dress, Jainsem, to the posh club’s dining area and sought “action” from him to ensure exemplary and stringent punishment to officials of the elite club for promoting racial and class-based discrimination against a Scheduled Tribe woman from the Northeast.
Prominent among those who signed the petition included former president of Editors’ Guild of India, DN Bezboruah, Gauhati University vice-chancellor Mridul Hazarika, eminent author Mitra Phukan, IIT-Guwahati faculty Anup Kumar Gogoi, industrialist Chiranjit Chaliha, veteran journalist Wasbir Hussain, human rights activist Miguel das Queah among others.
The signatories described the June 26 incident as one that violated provisions of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, and also sought action from the prime minister to end the culture of class and race-based discrimination not only in Delhi Golf Club but in all such institutions across the country, private or public.
