Sibsagar MLA Akhil Gogoi Demands Inter-State Border Policy

GUWAHATI: Raijor Dal president and Independent MLA from Sibsagar, Akhil Gogoi Monday demanded an inter-state border policy in Assam and requested Speaker Biswajit Daimary to take initiative in this regard.

"There is an urgent need for an inter-state border policy to manage our boundaries with the neighboring states. I request the Assembly Speaker to take the initiative in preparing the policy during the ongoing session," Gogoi said at a press conference here.

Notably, earlier this month Gogoi was part of the all-party Assembly delegation led by Daimary that had visited troubled Lailapur in Cachar district, where seven persons, including six Assam Police personnel, were martyred in a gunfight between police forces of both the states.

For day-to-day operations of the border areas, the policy should have a roadmap and all developmental work should be carried out according to it, said the chief of Raijor Dal. He also demanded that the Assam government give land pattas to indigenous local people living along with the border areas.

"After giving land rights the Assam government should develop the area by building roads, providing water and electricity connections, and constructing schools and healthcare facilities.

"Unfortunately Mizoram is giving land rights to their people after encroaching almost 7 km inside our (Assam) territory. But Assam government is evicting its own people in the name of clearing encroachment. When there will be no people, other states will obviously capture our land," he added.

Indigenous Dimasa-Burmans, Assamese Mizos, Bengali Hindus, and ethnic Muslims inhabit the disputed border areas in Cachar district, Gogoi said. 

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