Dimapur, April 8 (MExN): Apropos the news item ‘UNTABA questions KA administration on eviction drive’, the United Naga Tribes Association of Border Areas (UNTABA) has stated that the line “As of now, the boundary between Nagaland and Assam in Dimapur areas were clearly defined by Lengri stream/river…” was wrongfully misrepresented. A release from UNTABA Chairman, Hukavi T. Yeputhomi and General Secretary Imsumongba Pongen stated that it in no way reflects the clear stand of the UNTABA and the Naga people that “Nagaland as the 16th State in the Union of India was created under an Act of Parliament, the State of Nagaland Act, 1962 without definite boundary demarcation keeping in abeyance by referring to the Constitutional Provision of Article 3 & 4 of the Constitution of India and to be undertaken in due course of time.”
Hence, UNTABA said, it has been demanding and fighting for amicable solution of inter-state boundary demarcation between the two states of Nagaland and Assam based on the implementation of Point No. 4 & 6 of the ‘9 Points Agreement’ of 1947 inter alia “by bringing back all the transferred Naga lands illegally occupied by Assam, an area of approximately 4,974.16 square Miles of an equivalent of 12,883.07 square Kilometres.”
