After Meghalaya, Arunachal residents unhappy about border deal with Assam  

After a few of their counterparts in Meghalaya, some border residents of Arunachal Pradesh have opposed the boundary deal with Assam, signed on April 20.

GUWAHATI

After a few of their counterparts in Meghalaya, some border residents of Arunachal Pradesh have opposed the boundary deal with Assam, signed on April 20.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and his Arunachal Pradesh counterpart Pema Khandu signed the Memorandum of Understanding in the presence of Home Minister Amit Shah to end the 50-year-old dispute pertaining to 123 villages, along their 804-km inter-State border.

The Tirap, Changlang and Longding People’s Forum (TCLPF) has threatened to go to court against the “unilateral, biased” boundary deal “totally against the interest of Arunachal’s Tangsa people living in Assam and the affected villages of Changlang district”.

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Tirap, Changlang and Longding are the easternmost districts of Arunachal Pradesh.

The TCLPF’s objection to the pact was in respect of Changlang and Assam’s Tinsukia district. It referred to a clause in the boundary deal that reads: “There was no claimed village for Changlang-Tinsukia in 2007 before the local commission. Therefore, HPTC (High-Powered Tripartite Committee) boundary shall be abided by both States in the Changlang-Tinsukia area.”