In a press statement, Sethi said the Assam Chief Minister’s remarks encouraging economic discrimination against a particular community were “dangerous, unconstitutional, and deeply disturbing.”“Calling upon people to underpay members of a community is nothing but an open call for economic apartheid. The Chief Minister’s reported statement encouraging economic discrimination — ‘If the rickshaw fare is Rs 5, pay Rs 4’ — against a particular community reflects a dangerous mindset that promotes social boycott and economic apartheid. Such statements promote hatred, exclusion, and social boycott,” he said. He also criticised the alleged filing of a sedition case against him for reproducing and highlighting the Chief Minister’s statements. The Prime Minister’s silence on such disturbing statements sends a wrong message to the nation.