One community which doesn't deserve the pedestal it is placed upon is the Mizo. Look at the recent controversy. The don't want a non-local to head education department it seems. 
Seems justified right? Whenever a non-Mizo comes, there will be problems in allotment of seats to Mizos - that's what they are saying. But, what's the catch? The non-locals we are talking about here is the Hindu residents of Mizoram, the Bru.
For them, some Myanmarese terrorists have more right to stay in Mizoram than the Hindu Bru/Chakma.
But, they are not ready to allow the Bru who fled into Tripura due to the attitude of the Mizos.
They may argue Chin are like us. But the question is this. What do "like us" mean? Of the same ethnic stock like us, or Christians like us?
But, looking across the state border in Meghalaya, another tribal-christian state, we get a hunch it's religion and not tribal affiliation.
Nicely cloaked as Mizo but read it as christian. This is with respect to the Myanmarese police who crossed over into India following the military coup. And this is after Myanmar categorically said hosting them will hurt the relationship between the countries.
Just think about it. When Haryana said 75% local reservations, we jumped up and down. Here we have a state which is not ready to even accept as its residents, those who are not like the majority tribe and are violently ejected out just because they refused to convert.
It's political unions feel they are more bonded with the terrorists across the border and are ready to hurt relations between India and Myanmar, and not with those who resided traditionally inside its own state borders. Not evenna whimper of protest from us?
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