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Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and his Arunachal Pradesh counterpart Pema Khandu have signed an agreement to end border issues between the two states and decided to “restrict” the number of disputed villages to 86 instead of 123.
Chief ministers of the two North-eastern neighbours met at Namsai in Arunachal Pradesh and signed the agreement.
“We have decided to restrict the ‘disputed villages’ to 86 instead of 123. Based on our present boundary, we’ll try to resolve the rest by September 15, 2022,” Sarma tweeted.
Along with Hon Arunachal Pradesh CM Shri @PemaKhanduBJP ji, we’ve decided to restrict the ‘disputed villages’ to 86 instead of 123. Based on our present boundary, we’ll try to resolve the rest by 15 Sept 2022.
This is a milestone in the history of our friendship & brotherhood. pic.twitter.com/n3aWvPviYX
— Himanta Biswa Sarma (@himantabiswa) July 15, 2022
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and his Arunachal Pradesh counterpart Pema Khandu on Friday signed an agreement to end border issues between the two states and decided to “restrict” the number of disputed villages to 86 instead of 123.
Chief ministers of the two North-eastern neighbours met at Namsai in Arunachal Pradesh and signed the agreement.
Immensely happy to announce signing of Namsai Declaration at CM-level meeting between Assam & Arunachal Pradesh.
Inspired by Adarniya PM Shri @narendramodi ji & guided by Adarniya HM Shri @AmitShah ji, we could achieve this landmark in resolving our long-pending border disputes. pic.twitter.com/IqkBADC8dm
— Himanta Biswa Sarma (@himantabiswa) July 15, 2022
Sarma tweeted immensely happy to announce the signing of ‘Namsai Declaration at the Chief Minister’s level meeting between Assam and Arunachal Pradesh.
In 2010, Arunachal had withdrawn claim on 3 villages. It has reiterated that position. So, today we could restrict dispute only to 86 villages. A Namsai declaration has been issued today by both CMs, that we will now work sincerely to resolve the dispute of 86 villages, Himanta Bisw Sara, Assam Chief Minister told ANI.
Sarma further told ANI, Today when we discussed the constitutional boundary, we found that out of 123 disputed villages, 28 are actually within Arunachal and 6 villages are such whose names are not there in the Assam Revenue record. So, these 34 villages are already part of Arunachal Pradesh.
According to the ‘Namsai Declaration’, Sarma and Khandu agreed that out of the 37 disputed villages, 28 which are within the constitutional boundary of Arunachal Pradesh shall remain with the state while three villages on which claims were withdrawn by Arunachal Pradesh, will be with Assam.
Six other villages which could not be located on the Assam side would also remain with the frontier state if they exist in Arunachal Pradesh, the agreement stated.
“Both states would constitute 12 regional committees each covering the 12 districts of Arunachal and counterpart districts of Assam for joint verification of 123 villages to make recommendations to respective state governments,” Khandu tweeted.
Both states would constitute 12 Regional Committees each covering the 12 dist of Arunachal and counterpart dist of Assam for joint verification of 123 villages to make recommendations to respective State Govts.
4/7#NamsaiDeclaration pic.twitter.com/64FlW3S6WP
— Pema Khandu པདྨ་མཁའ་འགྲོ་། (@PemaKhanduBJP) July 15, 2022
