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File Photo: Senior Congress legislator from Meghalaya, Mazel Ampareen Lyngdoh. (Photo Courtesy: Alohomora95 / CC BY-SA [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0] via Wikimedia Commons)
Newmai News Network
Shillong | February 23
Senior Congress legislator from Meghalaya, Mazel Ampareen Lyngdoh has accused the ruling Meghalaya Democratic Alliance (MDA) government of totally ignoring the inter-state dispute between Meghalaya and Assam.
“During the Congress rule in Meghalaya we kept pushing for the inter-state border agenda and from time to time we would see meetings happening at the Chief Secretary level and on other levels of the two states but now there is silence on the issue of the interstate issue,” Lyngdoh said on Sunday.
“The inter-state agenda has been shelved very conveniently and if the government of Meghalaya does not take its own decision on certain important issue we are going to become victims,” she added.
Lyngdoh’ statement comes in the wake of border tensions at Umwali village near Langpih village in West Khasi Hills district where the residents of Umwali had objected to Assam police setting up a border outpost there recently.
Referring to the fact that over 19 lakh people have been excluded from the final version of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam, Lyngdoh said, “There will be a major pressure to relocate all these individuals especially those who did not have their names in the NRC Assam.”
Opining that a large chunk of the population is moving around from one place to another in Assam in a bid to hide from the law Lyngdoh said, “There is no guarantee that these people will not enter the state and lay claim to our land.”
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