Guwahati: Congress Lok Sabha deputy leader Gaurav Gogoi on Wednesday wrote to Union home minister Amit Shah over a reported incident in Nehru Place, New Delhi, where two women from Assam and Bihar were allegedly molested, assaulted and subjected to racist abuse on Sunday.According to media reports, the women were having tea outside a hotel when a group of men allegedly started catcalling them and making racist remarks. The abuse allegedly turned violent, with the women claiming they were assaulted in public and their clothes torn. In the letter, Gogoi raised concern that such incidents continue despite measures introduced by the home affairs ministry and Delhi Police, including the 24×7 helpline 1093, the North East Assistance Team, designated nodal officers and sensitisation programmes.“This incident is deeply disturbing not only because of its brutality but also because it reflects a recurring and deeply entrenched pattern faced by women and citizens from the northeastern states in the national capital,” Gogoi wrote.He also referred to another incident reported in March, in which a lawyer from Manipur and her transwoman friend were allegedly racially abused and attacked by a group of teenage boys at a park in South Delhi. Gogoi said only weeks before that in Feb three women from Arunachal Pradesh were allegedly racially abused and threatened in South Delhi’s Malviya Nagar after a neighbourhood dispute.“These repeated incidents are not isolated episodes but part of a longer and deeply troubling pattern of prejudice, profiling, intimidation and violence faced by people from the northeastern states in the national capital,” he said.
