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RSS rushes to help fleeing Assamese
Friday August 17, 2012 06:03:50 PM,
IANS
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Nagpur:
Over 500 RSS activists rushed to the help of
thousands of people from Assam and northeastern states returning
home, when a train halted at Nagpur Friday morning, an official
said.
The RSS activists had come carrying around 2,500 food packets and
water bottles which they distributed to the dazed Assamese on the
jam-packed Azad Hind Express which arrived from Pune, en route to
Kolkata and onwards to Guwahati.
RSS Nagpur secretary Mohan Agnihotri said that when the
organisation learnt about the plight of the fleeing Assamese
Thursday night, they decided to help.
"We organised around 2,500 food packets and water bottles to
provide relief to the people. We were shocked to see the train
packed with passengers from the northeast. It carried a passenger
load at least twice its capacity," Agnihotri told IANS from the
railway station.
He said that scared by rumour-mongering and threats, many have
fled leaving behind their belongings, and without money or other
resources to help them on their long journey back home.
"It is sad that our brethren from another part of India have to
undergo such trauma. We have decided to distribute similar aid to
more north-easterners who pass through Nagpur," Agnihotri said.
Besides RSS activists, members of the Bharatiya Janata Party and
Vishwa Hindu Parishad also joined the relief effort at Nagpur on
Friday.
Since Wednesday, nearly 5,000 people from Assam and other
northeastern states have left Maharashtra to return to their home
states.
Meanwhile, the union home ministry Friday banned bulk SMSes in
Maharashtra, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh in view of the scare
among north-easterners living, working and studying in these
states, a home department official told IANS.
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