By Our Reporter
SHILLONG: The Hill State People’s Democratic Party (HSPDP) has sought intervention of the Prime Minister to settle Meghalaya’s long pending boundary dispute with Assam.
In a petition to the Prime Minister on Wednesday, the HSPDP president HS Lyngdoh apprised the Centre of the atrocities orchestrated by Assam in the borders areas.
Citing a few instances where people residing in border areas are being harassed by Assam, Lyngdoh said in 1979, the Assam police encroached upon the lands and forests of Khasis at Raid Nongmynsaw and brought about 380 Nepalese families and got them settled in the forests falling under his constituency.
“Then onwards the area became a conflict zone,” the HSPDP president said.
Further, Lyngdoh stated that the high-handedness of the Assam government knows no boundary which is visible from the construction of check dams in the rivers and streams blocking every possible way for the people of the state to earn their livelihood.