NEHRO lodges complaint with ST Commission over racial slur

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ITANAGAR: The North East Human Rights Organization (NEHRO) has lodged a complaint with the National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST) against one Akhilesh Pratap Singh for his alleged racial remarks on a group of tribal people from Arunachal Pradesh in Lucknow, recently.

The NCST registered the complaint on September 23 last which was filed by NEHRO's state affairs secretary Buteng Tayeng.

Tayeng in his complaint letter stated that the group of people, led by one Toko Sheetal, met Singh in Lucknow on September 19 while on a foot march to Delhi to highlight the alleged misappropriation of funds by the state government. Singh allegedly insulted and intimidated them, using racial remarks without any reason.

"Akhilesh Pratap Singh even tried inciting disparity for using Indian national flag by Toko Sheetal and her team, as if the Indian national flag is not for the people of Arunachal Pradesh," Tayeng said in his complaint letter.

"He did not stop there and went on to the extent of social media and started to defame/insult her without any reason," the complainant said and requested the commission to take appropriate action against Singh under the Scheduled Castes & Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989.

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