Assam-Mizoram border row: Storm shifts from border to House

The Assam-Mizoram border tension eased to an extent, but the issue caused a storm in the Assam Legislative Assembly on Wednesday when the Speaker had to adjourn the House for forty minutes.
Assam-Mizoram border row: Storm shifts from border to House

* Speaker adjourns session for 40 minutes

STAFF REPORTER

GUWAHATI: The Assam-Mizoram border tension eased to an extent, but the issue caused a storm in the Assam Legislative Assembly on Wednesday when the Speaker had to adjourn the House for forty minutes.

After the Question Hour, Congress legislator Kamalakshya Dey Purkayastha raised the recent Assam-Mizoram boundary skirmishes that led to the killing of six Assam Police personnel. He said that the killing of the State police personnel pained Congress.

Purkayastha said, "Skirmishes on the Assam-Mizoram border have been going on since October 2020. A team of the CLP (Congress Legislature Party) did visit the disturbed border last year. We wrote a letter to the State government to solve the boundary disputes through talks. However, the Government has not solved the boundary disputes as yet. Why did six police personnel have to lose their lives?"

Speaker Biswajit Daimary then asked Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pijush Hazarika to reply.

Hazarika said, "The State government is lost for words to condemn the killing of State police personnel on the Mizoram border. However, the State government is not going to compromise on Assam land. Our Chief Minister has already made it clear in no uncertain terms.

"We (Assam and Mizoram) belong to one country. We must sit across the table to settle the boundary disputes. And the process for talks has already started. However, you (Congress) should keep this in mind that 34 Assam Police personnel had to lose their lives in border skirmishes since 1974."

The statement from Hazarika stirred up the hornet's nest. The slogan-shouting Congress MLAs then rushed to the Speaker's well. AIUDF legislators and Akhil Gogoi too joined the Congress and showed their lung power shouting slogans and displaying placards demanding a probe into the border killing. Soon the BJP MLAs also rushed in front of the Speaker and engaged themselves in a verbal duel with the Opposition MLAs. The unruly scene continued for about 30 seconds before the Speaker adjourning the House for forty minutes.

The Budget session of the state Assembly resumed today after an 11-day break with the condolence of the six police personnel killed on the Assam-Mizoram border. The session will conclude on August 13.

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