Meghalaya Chief Minister Mukul Sangma will arrive in New Delhi on Monday. He is expected to take up the issue of suicide of his niece Dana Sangma, who hanged herself on Amity University campus last week, allegedly after she was caught cheating during her MBA second semester examination.
Sangma had alleged discrimination against youths from the Northeast following Dana’s suicide and had blamed university officials for pushing her to the wall prompting her to take the extreme step. He is expected to meet senior officials in Gurgaon and discuss issues regarding the incident on a personal level.
The Chief Minister is also expected to address the media on the issue of discrimination against students from Northeastern states in NCR at the press club on Monday afternoon. Sangma had earlier told Newsline that he will be in Delhi and pursue the matter of his niece’s suicide personally.
After the incident, Sangma had said that he had also talked to Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda over phone and apprised him about the situation. Sangma had also sent an official letter to Hooda describing how students from the Northeast have been subjected to discrimination in the NCR in the past as well.
The Meghalaya Chief Minister had also alleged that since Dana was was a tribal, she had been subjected to humiliation and discrimination. “We are proud of the diversity in out country, but a few people tend to do such things. I will follow up the matter with the National Commission of Schedule Caste and Tribes,” Sangma had said.
Sangma also sent a Assistant Resident Commissioner to investigate the matter of Dana’s suicide and officer has been given the copies of the performa which Dana was made to write after she was allegedly found cheating.
In the meantime, police have already lodged a case under Section 3 of the SC/ST Prevention of Atrocities Act, 1989 and another case of abetment to suicide against the university. The matter is being investigated by an ACP.
A four-member National Commission of Women team had also visited the Amity campus a couple of days ago and questioned officials after taking suo motu cognisance of the matter.
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