UPA Chairperson, Sonia Gandhi, on Monday said most inmates of relief camps in violence-hit Kokrajhar and Dhubri districts of Assam are living in fear and wanted security to return to their homes.
“Most people in the camps want to go home. But they are living in fear and they want security to go back home,” she told reporters during in a brief interaction in Dhubri, where she visited three relief camps during the day.
She said the Union Home Minister, Sushil Kumar Shinde, and Assam Chief Minister, Tarun Gogoi, will review the situation and as it improves they will take steps to ensure that the camp inmates are rehabilitated with proper security in their homes.
Sonia Gandhi, accompanied by the Home Minister, visited relief camps in Dhubri and Kokrajhar in BTAD area (Dhubri and Kokrajhar in BTAD area), where violence between Bodos and minorities has claimed 77 lives.
“I have come here to inspect how the people are, if anything is missing or whether they have any complaints or problems,” she said adding the camp inmates had told her that they had no problems and were receiving rations regularly.
In a camp in Dhubri, the women complained of sanitary conditions and the authorities have been directed to take steps. The number of camps there would be increased to decongest the existing ones, she said.
The women in the camps would also be provided tinned baby food of their choice for their children, the UPA chairperson said. She visited Titaguri and Debargaon relief camps in Kokrajhar and Barkhanda Academy Peoples’ High School, Machpara LP School and Indranarayan College in Dhubri.