Mizo outfit urges PM Modi to help settle border feud

Guwahati: The Mizo Zirlai Pawl (MZP), Mizoram’s apex students’ body, has sought the intervention of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in resolving the dispute over the boundary between Assam and Mizoram.

Though, the three-member high level fact-finding team of the home ministry is looking into the dispute, the students body in a memorandum to the Prime Minister reasserted that the boundary line demarcated in 1875 under the Bengal Eastern Frontier Regulation of 1873 during the British rule should be recognised as the only boundary between Assam and Mizoram as accepted by the government and the people of Mizoram.

“The boundary line established during the British rule in 1875 under the Bengal Eastern Frontier Regulation of 1873 is accepted as the international boundary between the British and Lushai territory (Mizoram). The 46 boundary pillars erected on the border to demarcate the territory of Mizoram and Cachar (Assam) during the British rule is still considered as the Inner Line; besides inner line, there is no proper border stone to demarcate Mizoram-Assam border. Thus, the Mizo people want to go back to the original boundary marked in 1875,” the memorandum stated.