Irani schools Maha minister after the latter implied ‘Nagaland is not a part of India’

Congress leader who is also the Minister of Women and Child Development in Maharashtra, Yashomati Thakur was schooled by Union minister Smriti Irani after she implied that Nagaland is not a part of India, OpIndia report stated.
While addressing the Zonal Conference of States and Union Territories and stakeholders of the Western region in Mumbai on April 12, Yashomati talked about deportation to and from Nagaland, and the union minister had to interject and correct the Maharashtra Minister that Nagaland was very much part of India and there was no deportation within Indian states.
In the video, which also went viral on social media, Yashomati was heard saying, “With some states and countries we do have an MoU but with the others, especially, children coming from Nagaland…woman coming from Nagaland…they…”, before the Congress leader completed her sentence, Union Minister Smriti Irani interjected to remind her that Nagaland is very much part of the country.
Yashomati, for a second, rectified her statement by replacing ‘Nagaland’ with ‘Thailand’, but again quickly went on to justify her statement by saying, “It is our own country I understand, but there are children coming to the states and again ‘deported’ to the states without any notification. So Nagaland is also one of the states from where children come over here and we ‘deport’ them without any notification as we do not have an MoU within the states also”.
Here again, Irani educated the Congress minister saying that within a country, nomenclatures like deportation are not used. The Congress leader tried to cut short the union minister to give an explanation, but Irani told her that she should be mindful that Nagaland is a part of India and secondly no one can be deported within India.
“You should be mindful of your words…this is my humble request”, said the union minister in a curt reply to Maharashtra’s Minister of Women and Child Development.
The Congress minister, sounding least embarrassed by the gross mistake she made while delivering her speech went on to say that it was a “small mistake” she had made while conveying her message.