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Aizawl to host Assam-Mizoram border talks on August 9

The Mizoram delegation will be led by home minister Lalchamliana while the Assam delegation will be led by border protection and development minister Atul Bora.

AIZAWL:

In a bid to find an amicable and permanent solution to the long-standing interstate border dispute between Assam and Mizoram, political parleys were scheduled on August 5 to be held in Aizawl on August 9 between the two states.

The Mizoram delegation will be led by home minister Lalchamliana while the Assam delegation will be led by border protection and development minister Atul Bora.

Lalchamliana said that the Assam delegation would be arriving in Aizawl on Tuesday and the negotiations would be held in the afternoon at the Ajal Club, and that the talks would be followed by a joint press briefing by him and Bora.

Officials said that Lalchamliana would be accompanied in the talks by the minister of state for information and public relations Lalruatkima, state home secretary H. Lalengmawia and a joint secretary.

On the other side, Bora would be accompanied by Assam minister for housing and urban Ashok Singhal, border protection and development secretary GD Tripathi and other officials.

This would be the second time that the Assam border protection and development minister is holding talks with Mizoram home minister on the issue of border disputes between the two neighbouring states.

Negotiations between the two states to find a solution to the vexed border imbroglio for half a century had been moving on at a snail’s pace earlier.

Violent armed clashes at the Mizoram-Assam border at the outskirts of Vairengte town in Kolasib district between the two state police personnel which resulted in the deaths of five Assam police personnel compelled the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) and the state governments of the two neighbouring states to speed up negotiations to restore peace in the border areas and find long lasting solution to the border disputes.

After several talks were held between home department officials of both the states and chief secretaries, a delegation led by Atul Bora and Ashok Singhal had held talks in Aizawl on August 5 last year.

Mizoram Chief Minister Zoramthanga and his Assam counterpart Himanta Biswa Sarma, in the presence of Union Home Minister Amit Shah in Delhi during the last part of November last year, had agreed to continue the talks between themselves or between the delegation representing the chief ministers.

Border disputes officially began when Mizoram, erstwhile district of Assam, was elevated to union territory status in 1972 and continued to persist till date.

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