Chandrababu Naidu intervenes after Kakinada clash with Northeast students

m9.news reports that Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu stepped in after a clash between Northeast and local students at SK College of Nursing in Kakinada. The incident began on August 21 when a mobile phone belonging to a Northeast student went missing. An argument turned into a physical clash, leaving some students injured. Former Manipur Chief Minister N. Biren Singh contacted Naidu, who directed officials to ensure student safety. Thirty-one students from Manipur and Nagaland were shifted to separate accommodation with their consent, and security was increased. The Northeast students later expressed satisfaction and said they felt safe.

Telanganatoday.com, in an op-ed by Prof Ajailiu Niumai, frames the violence at RK Nursing College as reflecting deeper issues of safety, dignity, and racialised exclusion of Northeast women. It reports that the phone theft allegedly involved a local student, and that 31 students from Manipur, Nagaland and Assam had complained about repeated missing belongings without transparent inquiry. When students sought an FIR, their request was declined. Tensions escalated, local students called their parents, and a group gathered with sticks and stones. Six Northeast girls were injured. The students alleged they were pressured to leave, denied meals, and traumatised. The piece questions institutional failures and highlights the broader social 'othering' of Northeast migrants.