Got Pushed by Local Because I said I don't have ILP
Before writing anything I have checked the Mizoram Government Website it says "All persons EXCEPT the following require ILP : d. Regular/Permanent State or Central Government servants with his/her family while serving in Mizoram."
I have completed 1 year while serving in Mizoram as a Central Government Employee. This is my first instance of facing this kind of thing. I also would like to state that I actually look like Mizo and people only recognise me as non Mizo if I don't reply to them in Mizo or I say I don't know Mizo as I am also a Tribal person from Assam.
So, this evening I went out to get Eggs from a nearby store, I noticed a person was looking at me from a distance and before I could enter the shop he called me. There was nobody around it that was pretty deserted except that shopkeeper. So, I went near him and he asked in broken Hindi. But I will write in English what he was basically saying " Do you have ILP ? Why are you roaming here? You know outsiders are not allowed here ( I don't know exactly what he was trying to say) but he was saying [Bahar wala]" I replied I don't have an ILP with me now, I just work here, I told him the name of my workplace also and I told him that I think as Central Servicemen we are exempted from it and I am just here to get Eggs. I don't know what triggered him he became aggressive and started asking for ILP again and again. I tried to make him understand why I am here in Mizoram but he was not trying or he may not have understood what i was saying because I was also replying in Hindi. Now he became too aggressive and started saying you think to yourself as big or bigshot ( I didn't actually understand what he was trying to say but as per my understanding he was trying to say what do you think of yourself that you are too big of a person that doesn't need ILP). Now he started pushing me and started getting physical. But thanks to that shopkeeper, she saw it and intervened. I don't know what she told him but he stopped but he didn't leave the place. After buying eggs I came out of the shop but as he was still there he tried to walk with me for some distance and he was asking where I stayed. I didn't interact again he eventually left. Actually during conversation also I didn't say much as I was not completely understanding him.
It was very scary and I don't know how to process this experience. I think he was a bit drunk. I was very polite while talking to him. I am not defence personal. I am just a civilian employee. I don't even go out except for groceries and sometimes when we have an off day we usually go out to roam other than that I don't have any connection with anyone here. I don't know anyone outside my work. I didn't come here willingly, I am here because I was posted here. I will complete my tenure and go back. I don't have anything to do with anyone here. I don't know why people behave like this with complete strangers. As a fellow Northeasterner I never imagined I would face this type of thing in the North East itself.