Assam Mizoram border dispute: All you need to know | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Assam and Mizoram share a 164.6 km inter-state border, and conflicting territorial claims have persisted for long. Several dialogues held since 1995 to resolve the border dispute have yielded little results. As a results, flare-ups along the border, over various issues, are not uncommon. Here’s all you need to know.
* The recent clashes occurred along Kolasib district of Mizoram and Cachar of Assam.
* Some Mizo volunteers had put up checkposts, allegedly on Assamese side of the border, and purportedly in the wake of Covid pandemic.
* Assam forest officials were allegedly not allowed to go beyond the checkpost, in a recent incident.
* Mizoram police say some people from Assam pelted stones at a Mizo group on the outskirts of a border village on Saturday evening.
* An irate mob from Mizoram’s Vairengte retaliated and set on fire about 20 temporary bamboo huts and stalls built along NH-306 by villagers of Assam’s Lailapur.

* Assam forest minister Parimal Shukla Baidya, who is also the local MLA, said such incidents happen as people from both the sides illegally cut trees.
* Some Mizo lawmakers claim that over 80 per cent of people living along the border are illegal Bangladeshi immigrants.
* Fingers have also been pointed at some politicians trying to take advantage, in view of the Assam elections due next year.