Isolation

It has been a fact that the north-eastern states of India have been alienated from the whole country and the low development there is just due to the carelessness of Government of India which has never been wary on the north-eastern side. This has not been a heated debate in the Indian parliament but still the issue is very vital and crucial.

North-Eastern states from the beginning have been the prey of insurgencies and rebellions and has been marginalised from the main stream politics of the country. The regular insurgencies and rebellions exhibit that the grievances of people of north-east India are more than any other states. But her something worked of which no one had previously thought of. The miracle which worked here is power of the people of the world i.e. Democracy. In the insurgency-hit areas states of Meghalaya, Nagaland and Tripura the incumbent leaders were voted back to power by the people and with an unprecedented voter turnout. Tripura portrayed a voter turn-out of 93% which Meghalaya followed at 88% and Nagaland at 83.2%.

For the past two decades the states of North –east have been showing a humongous awareness towards the election with big voter turnouts, increased political representation and inflated participation is election-related activities in both Lok sabha and Assembly election. Similarly the governments have also done well in these states. The ministers have done a great work in north-eastern states. Tripura was ranked 3^rd in the literacy level with 14.6% increase in literacy while Nagaland was placed on 6^th and in Meghalaya 14.96% in literacy level was observed.  The states have also rewarded their leaders with Mukul Sangma in Meghalaya entering his second term, in Tripura Manik Sarkar won his consecutive fourth term and Neiphiu Rio snatching away the victory third consecutive time.

 

All the results show that there is huge work being put on by the governments there which is highly praiseworthy and commendable but still something is left. The government of India now needs to ensure that the people of northeastern India are not being exploited and has to ensure that they are not feeling sequestered. These people are a huge asset for the whole nation and need to be considered as common people. The literacy levels and other factors show huge education, development opportunities in the North-eastern India and India needs to use that opportunity and benefit of those should be given to our north-eastern brothers.