Guwahati: Assam Congress president Gaurav Gogoi on Thursday said that BJP led governments at the Centre and Northeastern states have failed to resolve the long-pending decades old inter-state border disputes and proposed that cases pending before the Supreme Court should be expedited for a judicial solution to the dispute.
Recalling that BJP had formed North East Democratic Alliance of the northeastern states to resolve such disputes, Mr Gogoi told reporters that the resolution of inter-state border disputes should have been a top priority for both the Centre and the state governments.
“This is one of the most important issues that the Centre and the state government should have resolved. The entire Northeast has a forum called the North East Democratic Alliance, whose chairman was the chief minister of Assam. If, till today, the boundaries of Northeast India have not been resolved despite the BJP being in power at the Centre since 2014, then I think it is a complete failure of the NEDA,” he said.
The Congress leader said the regional political alliance had failed to achieve one of its key objectives and demanded that it be dissolved. “NEDA should be disbanded,” asserted Mr Gogoi.
He also proposed that the pending inter-state boundary cases before the Supreme Court should be expedited so that the decades-old disputes could be resolved at the earliest.
“I hope the cases that are in the Supreme Court are expedited so that these inter-state disputes can be resolved at the earliest,” he added.
His remarks came amid ongoing efforts of northeastern states, including Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh to settle long-pending border disputes through bilateral talks.
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