From Our Correspondent
Guwahati: One more special train arrived here on Monday from Bangaluru carrying more Northeast people who have fled their place of work and study in Southern states because of the ‘threat’ doing round out there. Many of those alighted from the special train, however, said they were willing to go back once the things became ‘normal’ in teir place of work.
Manipuri woman Mawinu who was working at a company in Bangaluru, came in the special train, but with an intention to go back. Similarly, some others like Karunakanta Lahan (Sivasagar), Bipul Hazarika (Dibrugarh), Sanjib Gogoi (Marigaon), Dipak Hazarika (Marigaon), Putul Saikia (Marigaon) who have come back in the same train, said that they would also go back at the earliest.
“I have left behind all my belongings with my friends in Bangaluru. I will go back once everything is back to normal,” the Manpuri woman Mawinu said.
In view of improving security situation for N-E people in Southern states, Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi has requested the railways not to provide any more special trains for such mass evacuation of panic-gripped. Gogoi said most of those who have rushed back home in a hurry were now willing go back especially after they came to know that their jobs were still intact and there would be no salary cut for their absence under the special circumstances.
The four senior cabinet ministers from Assam who were deputed to Bangaluru and Chennai to take stock of the situation and ensure security for people from the state living out there in coordination with local governments there, have also sent across messages that there was nothing to be worried about for N-E people in those states anymore.
CM Tarun Gogoi has instructed the legislators of ruling Congress to travel to various arts of the state especially their respective constituencies to meet people who have come back home out of panic leaving their jobs and study behind, and persuade them to go back as soon as possible.