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Assam announces Rs 2 lakh aid for 11 border firing victims
The Assam government will provide Rs 2 lakh each to 11 people injured in firing at Bodoti village in Dhemaji district on August 10, State Education Minister Ranoj Pegu said. The incident…
The Story in Brief
The Assam government will provide Rs 2 lakh each to 11 people injured in firing at Bodoti village in Dhemaji district on August 10, State Education Minister Ranoj Pegu said. The incident followed a dispute over alleged agricultural land encroachment along the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border. Pegu said the cheques would be handed over on Saturday.
Eight injured people are being treated at Assam Medical College and Hospital in Dibrugarh. One underwent surgery and another, with eye injuries, was scheduled for surgery. Doctors said all the injured were out of danger and could be discharged soon, Pegu said. Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma sought a formal inquiry from Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu. Both states have deployed security personnel and begun steps to ease tensions.
The Indian Opinion
The easy narrative is to treat this as another inevitable Assam-Arunachal confrontation, while the opposite is to dismiss it as a minor local quarrel. Neither helps. Eleven people were shot, and accountability must follow without turning an encroachment dispute into a wider ethnic or territorial campaign. The useful test is whether the promised impartial inquiry identifies the shooters and whether both administrations prevent further violence at the vulnerable border sites.
Source: assamtribune.com
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