GUWAHATI/SILchar/Aizawl: The embers of the Assam-Mizoram border conflict, which required central intervention last year, were resurfaced on Sunday morning with “two-three blasts” on the border that CM Himanta Biswa said. wire Attributed to “Mizo miscreants”.
Mizoram Chief Secretary Lalnunmawia Chuango immediately contested the allegations and wrote to him Union Home Ministry, accusing the people of Assam side of destroying the crops of Mizo farmers and illegally building roads by the administration.
CM Sarma said that Assam will defend “its constitutional border with Mizoram” with all its might in the face of continued aggression. “together position Assam-Mizoram border Tension has been brewing for the last six months (in Cachar district). The situation has not improved as we expected. In the last one month, we have ensured that no one from Mizoram can infiltrate into Assam.
He said an officer of the rank of Additional DGP and several other senior policemen of Assam are presently camping along the inter-state border. “We have built border posts and roads along the borders to protect the constitutional border.”
Sarma said that all the blasts in CA-4 that shook the inter-state border were on the Mizoram side and were probably a scare tactic. “Mizoram Police will definitely investigate the incidents, but Assam Police will not back down.”
CRPFA neutral force deployed at Khulichera Point-II has been asked to investigate suspected explosions inside the Mizoram region.
In his letter to the Additional Secretary (NE) of the Union Ministry of Home Affairs, the Chief Secretary of Mizoram said, “Some farmers of Buarchep village in Mizoram were pushed and harassed, their crops destroyed and a new one with the excavation. The road was built.”
The people of Mizoram had allegedly encroached upon land up to 6.5 km inside Khulichera in Assam’s Dholai a few days ago. Soon after, the Assam Police and civil administration launched an eviction drive.
Mizoram shares a 164.6 km long border with Assam. There have been several rounds of talks involving the Center since 1995 to resolve the dispute, only for it to flare up from time to time.
(With inputs from Kangkan Kalita, BB Goswami and HC Vanalalruta)
Mizoram Chief Secretary Lalnunmawia Chuango immediately contested the allegations and wrote to him Union Home Ministry, accusing the people of Assam side of destroying the crops of Mizo farmers and illegally building roads by the administration.
CM Sarma said that Assam will defend “its constitutional border with Mizoram” with all its might in the face of continued aggression. “together position Assam-Mizoram border Tension has been brewing for the last six months (in Cachar district). The situation has not improved as we expected. In the last one month, we have ensured that no one from Mizoram can infiltrate into Assam.
He said an officer of the rank of Additional DGP and several other senior policemen of Assam are presently camping along the inter-state border. “We have built border posts and roads along the borders to protect the constitutional border.”
Sarma said that all the blasts in CA-4 that shook the inter-state border were on the Mizoram side and were probably a scare tactic. “Mizoram Police will definitely investigate the incidents, but Assam Police will not back down.”
CRPFA neutral force deployed at Khulichera Point-II has been asked to investigate suspected explosions inside the Mizoram region.
In his letter to the Additional Secretary (NE) of the Union Ministry of Home Affairs, the Chief Secretary of Mizoram said, “Some farmers of Buarchep village in Mizoram were pushed and harassed, their crops destroyed and a new one with the excavation. The road was built.”
The people of Mizoram had allegedly encroached upon land up to 6.5 km inside Khulichera in Assam’s Dholai a few days ago. Soon after, the Assam Police and civil administration launched an eviction drive.
Mizoram shares a 164.6 km long border with Assam. There have been several rounds of talks involving the Center since 1995 to resolve the dispute, only for it to flare up from time to time.
(With inputs from Kangkan Kalita, BB Goswami and HC Vanalalruta)
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