Staff Reporter,
Guwahati, September 21: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and his Mizoram counterpart Zoramthanga hold another round of talks in the national capital today on the long-pending interstate border issue. The meeting lasted for around 25 minutes. After the meeting, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that recently, a group of ministers from the two states met in Aizawl on August 9, 2022. And today's ministerial level meeting discussed the progress and reviewed what happened in that meeting, and both the CMs are satisfied with the progress. "We are in the process of forming regional committees to solve this issue," said Assam CM. Meanwhile, the Mizoram Chief Minister also said the same about the August 9 meeting and stated that they are hopeful of resolving the interstate border issue at the earliest. They had previously met in Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s presence in Delhi in November last year and had decided to form panels with participation from all parties to settle the conflict and hold chief ministerial-level discussions. The dispute over Mizoram’s 164.6 km of shared border with Assam is linked to colonial demarcations made in 1875 and 1933. Mizoram held a stretch of a reserved forest notified in 1875. A section of it now falls under Assam. After seven people were killed and about 60 were injured when police forces from the two states opened fire on each other in July 2021, the two states convened a ministerial-level meeting on August 5 of that year and decided to maintain peace along the border and resolve the problem through dialogue.
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