Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the national capital on Monday to discuss the Assam-Mizoram border issue.
The Assam Chief Ministers likely to meet Union Home Minister Amit Shah over the border dispute with the neighboring state Mizoram. He will also be accompanied by the BJP MPs. Sarma, who is in New Delhi since Saturday, was scheduled to meet Amit Shah but unable to meet him due to some reasons.
While the two chief ministers have been loggerheads with each other, they have jointly agreed to take forward the Centre’s initiative of letting neutral forces patrol the disputed areas of the inter-state border the maintaining peace.
All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) chief and Lok Sabha MP Badruddin Ajmal is also in New Delhi and will be also be meeting meeting Union Home Minister Amit Shah to discuss the encroachments into Assam by other northeastern states.
“I will be meeting Amit Shah today on this issue. No specific time has been given but I was asked to be ready by evening as they might call,” he told ANI.
“Not only Mizoram, but all our neighbouring states have also taken some portion of our land. A specific boundary should be made. Mizoram has also taken some portion of our land in the past 6-7 months, they should leave it and then make a benchmark boundary assuring that no further encroachments will be done,” he added.
Mizoram Governor Dr Hari Babu Kambhampati met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah to discuss the current border situation and how to diffuse the tensions between the two states.
“It is an unfortunate incident. Union Home Minister Amit Shah is trying to defuse the situation and find a solution. Both the CMs (Assam and Mizoram) reiterated that peace will be restored,” the Governor told ANI.
