Rijiju calls for status quo by northeastern States on interstate boundary issue

Union Minister Kiren Rijiju said that the Centre would make efforts to find a solution to the decades-old boundary disputes between the NE States

Union Minister Kiren Rijiju on August 19 called for maintaining status quo by the northeastern States on the interstate boundary issue and asked them to handle the matter at the local levels. The boundary dispute between several northeastern States are pending with the Supreme Court and it is the responsibility of every State to maintain status quo and avoid any form of violence over the issue, the Union Law And Justice Minister told a press conference in Itanagar. Mr. Rijiju, who arrived in Itanagar on a three-day visit to Arunachal Pradesh as part of ‘Jan Ashirwad Yatra’ mooted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the recently sworn-in Union Ministers, said that the Centre would make efforts to find a solution to the decades-old boundary disputes between the NE States.