SHILLONG: South Shillong BJP MLA, Sanbor Shullai, has moved Union Home Minister, Amit Shah, seeking the Centre’s intervention into resolving the decades-old border issue between Meghalaya and Assam.
In a letter to Shah, Shullai said, “I would like to seek central government’s intervention into resolving the long-pending unsettled border outline between Assam and Meghalaya”.
“The decision to resolve border disputes among the Northeastern states by 2021 is a noble thought and gesture and one that we are highly grateful for,” he added.
Stating that there are several areas between Assam and Meghalaya where border disputes are frequent, the legislator said, “This leads to an uneasy calm and hostility among the people living in both sides of the border.”
He said people in the “unsettled border areas” are being subjected to difficulties as some developmental activities have not been able to be carried out due to the border dispute.
“Sometimes what happened at the border spills over into the rest of the state affecting lives of people all over and also disrupt the communal harmony,” Shullai said.
Besides, resolving the border disputes will help boost the morale of the party workers across the region, he added.
It may be mentioned that Assam and Meghalaya have at least 12 areas where there are boundary disputes among themselves and both states have adopted a policy where one state cannot carry out developmental activities without informing the other.
Chief ministers of both the states have met in the past as also their chief secretaries and consultations were held by the district administrators concerned and the police forces of the two states to resolve the issue. (With inputs from PTI)