Assam-Mizoram border issue: Mizoram submits claims and demands, informs Assam Border affairs minister Atul Bora
First Published: 27th March, 2023 12:07 IST
The Assam Border Affairs minister said, "We had a long discussion with the Mizoram Home Minister and the senior officials of the Mizoram government and after that discussion they have
Assam Border Affairs minister Atul Bora has informed that Mizoram has for the first time submitted claims and demands on land which is in dispute between both the states.
Bora said that the development comes after he held crucial deliberations with Mizoram Home Minister Lalchamliana, news agency ANI reported.
The Assam Border Affairs minister said, “We had a long discussion with the Mizoram Home Minister and the senior officials of the Mizoram government and after that discussion they have submitted some of their claims and demands for the first time.”
In September 2022, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and his Mizoram counterpart Zoramthanga, met in Delhi for talks on the vexed issue. The Assam Chief Minister after the meeting had informed that both the states had decided to form regional committees to pursue the matter. Prior to that the two Chief Ministers had met in New Delhi in 2021 in the presence of Home Minister Amit Shah after the Lailapur incident in July in the same year.
While Mizoram stakes its claim over a 509 square mile stretch as its original boundary according to the inner line reserve forest notified in 1875 by the British, Assam considers the map prepared by Survey of India in the year 1933 as the legitimate boundary.
While slamming the Congress for doing nothing to resolve the border issue, Atul Bora said that the Assam government led by Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma is leaving no stone unturned to find solution to the long pending inter-state boundary issue.
Bora said, “Look the Congress did nothing when they were power in Delhi and Northeastern states. So our government under the leadership of Himanta Biswa Sarma, we have taken lot of efforts, lot of steps.”
Meanwhile, the Assam Border Affairs minister also informed that Meghalaya has formed new Regional Committees after the elections.
He added, “The Regional Committees had to be changed after the election (in Meghalaya). I have gone through the paper that they have formed new Regional Committees.”
“Likewise talks are on with Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram. Definitely this time something will happen,” Atul Bora further said.
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