Kiren Rijiju Assures Safe Environment for Northeast People

New Delhi, Oct 13 : Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju today assured people from North-East that the Centre will take adequate steps so that they get a safe environment in every part of the country.

Rijiju, while speaking at the 51st annual function of Naga Students Union in Delhi, said that the Union Home Ministry would ensure safe working environment for North-East citizens "like it is for others".

"I have been a part of Naga Students Union, Delhi for long and it is a matter of pleasure that the Union has been working tediously for the students and people of North-east in Delhi," Rijiju was quoted as saying in a BJP press release.

Delhi BJP President Satish Upadhyay said that the party would ensure that students and people of North-Wast region get "congenial atmosphere" to study and work in the national capital.

He also said that BJP would work for "assimilation" of North-East people in the main stream.

In the programme attended by nearly 2,500 North-East students, Naga Students Union President J Maivio said that the organisation would keep working for them in Delhi.