Shillong Dec 5: The unsettled boundary dispute between Assam- Meghalaya irked the Hill State People’s Democratic Party (HSPDP) who on Wednesday the intervention of the Prime Minister of India to expedite settling the issue.
Party President HS Lyngdoh said that he informed the union government on the existing problems along the border areas while urging the government to intervene into the matter and to solve the problem at the earliest.
“We urged the Government of India to stop the activities of Assam against the Khasi scheduled tribes,” Lyngdoh said in a letter to the PM on Wednesday.
Citing a few instances where the border residents of the state are being harassed by its counter-part, Lyngdoh said in 1979, the Assam police encroached upon the lands and forests of the local Khasis at Raid Nongmynsaw and brought about 380 Nepalee families and settled in the forests falling under his constituency.
“Then onwards, the area became a conflict zone and besides harassing the local people of the state, a heinous crime was committed whereby in 2010, 4 innocent local Khasis were shot dead at Langpih by the Assam Police leaving 11 others injured”, the HSPDP president said.
While stating on the high handedness of the Assam government Lyngdoh siad “Last week the Nepalese of Assam arrested a Khasi boy who is the president of HANM and put into Assam jail in Guwahati who was later released on bail.
Dwelling further Lyngdoh stated that during the month of November 2012, the survey of India publicized the political Map of Meghalaya which was printed in 2009 has misled the people because nearly 150 villages, lands and forests have been missing/deleted from the map of Meghalaya that is 64 villages in Raid Mynsaw, 8 villages in Mawtamur area, 14 villages in Byrnihat area, 28 village in Raid Khyrim, 32 villages in Block I and 6 villages in Ratacherra border of Bangladesh.(SP News)
