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Assam delinks firing from Arunachal border dispute, urges end to blockade
The Assam government has sought to separate the August 10 firing incident along the Likabali stretch from the decades-old boundary dispute with Arunachal Pradesh. Border minister Atul Bora said it is a…
The Story in Brief
The Assam government has sought to separate the August 10 firing incident along the Likabali stretch from the decades-old boundary dispute with Arunachal Pradesh. Border minister Atul Bora said it is a law-and-order matter and police have registered a case against the perpetrators. Education minister Ranoj Pegu offered to pay medical expenses of the injured and urged the Takam Mising Porin Kebang to withdraw its indefinite economic blockade.
The 2023 MoU between chief ministers Himanta Biswa Sarma and Pema Khandu settled 123 disputed villages, but demarcation continues. Livemint reports that Assam told its assembly in July that Arunachal had encroached on 16,144 hectares, while Arunachal claims 858.91 sq km. A person was killed in a clash in June 2023, weeks after the pact. Both states have formed a new committee to restart talks.
The Indian Opinion
Every clash along this 804-km border is quickly framed as a failure of the 2023 pact, but the MoU only addressed 123 pre-listed villages. The real test is whether the new committee headed by Ranoj Pegu can finish ground-level demarcation and resolve the remaining 1,200 disputed points before local communities take matters into their own hands again. Until boundary pillars are actually planted, goodwill on paper means little.
Sources (2): livemint.com, assamtribune.com
This story was synthesised by AI from the 2 sources linked above.
Updated: this story now draws on 2 sources.
