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https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/assam-govt-issues-advisory-asks-people-to-avoid-travelling-to-mizoram-amid-border-row-1834411-2021-07-29

The Assam government has issued an advisory asking local residents to refrain from travelling to Mizoram amid the ongoing inter-state border row that has claimed lives of six Assam Police personnel.

"Given the critical prevailing situation, the people of Assam are advised not to travel to Mizoram and the personal safety of people of Assam cannot be accepted," the advisory issued by the state's home department states.

It added that people of Assam staying in Mizoram due to work related compulsion, should exercise utmost caution.

"There have been several cases of violent skirmishes in the border area of Assam and Mizoram. The latest skirmish on July 26 led to indiscriminate firing on the police personnel as well as civilians...six policemen lost their lives and scores of policemen and civilians were seriously injured," the government said in a statement.

"Even after this incident, certain Mizo Civil Society members, students and youth organisations are constantly issuing provocative statements against Assam and its people. It has been reliably learnt from video footage available with the Assam Police that many civilians are heavily armed with automatic weapons," the statement added.

This advisory will come into force with immediate effect, the government said.

Meanwhile, news agency PTI reported the situation along the Assam-Mizoram border was "calm and under control" on Thursday.

Central forces were deployed along the inter-state border at Lailapur, while state police personnel remained 100 metres inside their respective borders. A strict vigil is being maintained with people not allowed to move towards the border as it is at present a "conflict zone", an unnamed official was quoted as saying.
 
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BJP home minister visits, they start killing each other.

Facsinating Indians still support an extremist party which is make a mockery of their nation.
 
Was reading on it, seems like the two states hate each other and if this was Congress BJP would not have shut up.
[MENTION=139664]street cricketer[/MENTION] can shed more light
 
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BJP home minister visits, they start killing each other.

Facsinating Indians still support an extremist party which is make a mockery of their nation.

There is no BJP home minister. There is only Indian or state home minister.

The best thing that BJP has done is light a fire underneath the likes of you, shut out pakistan from India. Best reason to vote for them.
 
There is no BJP home minister. There is only Indian or state home minister.

The best thing that BJP has done is light a fire underneath the likes of you, shut out pakistan from India. Best reason to vote for them.

KKWC is confused. If he is so anti India , he should be happy with this BJP government And what’s it done in India.

In past 15 months, india has seen deathly riots in Delhi, farmers protests, people dying on the streets, massive floods, migrants crisis etc etc
 
Mizoram demands central order to lift blockade by Assam

Amid CM's peace appeal, Mizoram demands central order to lift blockade by Assam | India News - Times of India
AIZAWL: As Assam's retaliatory economic blockade against Mizoram over Monday's border flare-up stretched beyond 48 hours, the Zoramthanga government on Wednesday wrote to the Centre to get the neighboring state to immediately reopen road and rail routes “owned and maintained by the government of India”.
“No state agency/entity or the general public has any right to block national highways and railway lines, restricting the movement of people and goods,” Mizoram home secretary Pi Lalbiaksangi said in her missive to Union home secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla.
Lalbiaksangi said the Silchar-Aizawl stretch of NH-306, which is the lifeline of Mizoram, had been blocked by people on the Assam side at Kabuganj in the Barak Valley. She said rail tracks had been damaged at Mohammadpur and Ramnathpur stations in Assam’s Hailakandi district, cutting off the lone railroad link to Mizoram’s Bairabi.
The landlocked state, the smallest one in the Northeast, is already facing a scarcity of essential items such as oil and rice due to the blockade.
Lalbiaksangi accused Assam, which had clamped a similar economic blockade from October 17 to November 11 last year, of “taking advantage” of the fact that all routes for supply of essential commodities to Mizoram pass through that state.
The Mizoram home secretary's letter to the Centre contrasted with CM Zoramthanga's appeal to rebuild the broken bridges of communication with Assam that have created multiple border flashpoints since the first failed dialogue in 1995.
Posting a video on Twitter showing three Bengali-speaking youths from the Barak Valley saying how they felt safe and comfortable in Mizoram, Zoramthanga wrote, “Our Assam brethren receiving their Covid vaccines at a Local Church hall in Aizawl. Non-Mizos from all walks of life within Mizoram are at peace. I urge everyone to remain peaceful and refrain from any sort of violence. NorthEast will always be One."
In an earlier tweet in which he tagged PM Narendra Modi and Union home minister Amit Shah, the Mizo CM said, “I sincerely request all to stay calm and promote peace in this time of great difficulty. #Mizoram hope(s) for an amicable solution with the help of intervention from the central government.”
The Aizawl Mosque Committee and the Mizoram Muslim Welfare Committee issued a statement saying there was no backlash against anyone over the border incidents last Monday that led to five Assam cops being killed and left around 70 people, including officials, injured.
“On behalf of the Muslim community, we would like to convey our gratitude to the state government and the people of Mizoram for giving jobs to members of our community in different spheres within the state, whereby they are able to feed their families and earn their livelihood,” the mosque committee said.
In Assam, Mizo missionaries working at Gharmurra in Hailakandi district were allegedly forced to leave the mission compound and flee to Mizoram. A few slogan-shouting protesters had also gathered in front of Mizoram House in Guwahati during the day.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com...ofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst
 
There is no BJP home minister. There is only Indian or state home minister.

The best thing that BJP has done is light a fire underneath the likes of you, shut out pakistan from India. Best reason to vote for them.

He is from the BJP party, simple enough English. I find the BJP ruining India, they cant do zilch to Pakistan as they are a bunch of extremist fools imo.

Care to discuss the topic? What is going on here?

KKWC is confused. If he is so anti India , he should be happy with this BJP government And what’s it done in India.

In past 15 months, india has seen deathly riots in Delhi, farmers protests, people dying on the streets, massive floods, migrants crisis etc etc

No need to be happy when they are causing harm to many people inside their own nation.
 
Was reading on it, seems like the two states hate each other and if this was Congress BJP would not have shut up.
[MENTION=139664]street cricketer[/MENTION] can shed more light

As always, with every dispute in south asia, it's due to a land issue and question on who owns what. You have to realise that the north east is a very diverse region with multiple ethnicities and sub ethnicities in the region which have its own cultures. But in the time of colonial India, the British simply divided the entire east and north eastern region into two big blocs/provinces - Bengal and Assam with a few small princely states in between. But later, as new union territories and later states were carved out of these former British Indian provinces, disputes have arisen over whose territory is what.

A short summary of the dispute:

https://indianexpress.com/article/e...oram-dispute-violence-policemen-dead-7425600/

You can probably get better information from our posters from the north east like [MENTION=90888]Itachi[/MENTION] or [MENTION=133315]Hitman[/MENTION].
 
I have always said Modi is great for Pak! We should celebrate him being in charge of India instead of complain about it! This man's obsession with Hindutva and Hindu supremacy will be the reason of India breaking in pieces. As for IK his one reply to that Indian journalist of Modi being a fascist lit a fire under the backsides of the Indian media!!:)):)) Since then they have been crying like babies and licking their wounds about our PM and the situation in Afghanistan.
 
I have always said Modi is great for Pak! We should celebrate him being in charge of India instead of complain about it! This man's obsession with Hindutva and Hindu supremacy will be the reason of India breaking in pieces. As for IK his one reply to that Indian journalist of Modi being a fascist lit a fire under the backsides of the Indian media!!:)):)) Since then they have been crying like babies and licking their wounds about our PM and the situation in Afghanistan.

how this is related to the thread though?
 
In the sense that the situation in Mizoram is related to Modi and the Indian government.

actually no. The conflict between different tribes and border dispute (current one) goes way back. It has nothing to do with religion or BJP.
 
actually no. The conflict between different tribes and border dispute (current one) goes way back. It has nothing to do with religion or BJP.

Religion is not involved as both are majority Hindu states but Modi is indeed behind it. That this conflict has risen again with him being in governance is no coincidence.
 
As for the OP, motabhai visits north east, and 2 police forces shoot each other from LMGs. What else did anyone expect from a renowned trouble maker who is such a blot on such an important ministry of a sovereign nation?
 
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Religion is not involved as both are majority Hindu states but Modi is indeed behind it. That this conflict has risen again with him being in governance is no coincidence.

How modi is behind it?

The interstate dispute between arunachal, Mizoram, Nagaland exists since it's inception when there was creation of provinces.
 
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actually no. The conflict between different tribes and border dispute (current one) goes way back. It has nothing to do with religion or BJP.

Such territorial disputes exist between many India states. Belgaum is claimed by Maharashtra and Karnataka, Hosur by both Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, Parwanoo by both Haryana and Himachal Pradesh, and there are several others. There are quite a few involving Assam. While there have been minor clashes, they are definitely not serious insurgencies as some people would like to believe and almost all of them predate the Modi era.

Quite funny how our neighbours try so hard to project India as being on the brink of collapse :))
 
Such territorial disputes exist between many India states. Belgaum is claimed by Maharashtra and Karnataka, Hosur by both Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, Parwanoo by both Haryana and Himachal Pradesh, and there are several others. There are quite a few involving Assam. While there have been minor clashes, they are definitely not serious insurgencies as some people would like to believe and almost all of them predate the Modi era.

Quite funny how our neighbours try so hard to project India as being on the brink of collapse :))

Pretty embarrassing that state troops are killing each other

If you saw that in a newspaper you’d think it’s civil war
 
How modi is behind it?

The interstate dispute between arunachal, Mizoram, Nagaland exists since it's inception when there was creation of provinces.

So the PM's job is just to cry over happenings in Pak? He can't do nothing in his own country other then blame Congress? Ultimately the centre is always to blame anywhere.
 
So the PM's job is just to cry over happenings in Pak? He can't do nothing in his own country other then blame Congress? Ultimately the centre is always to blame anywhere.

India's different elements work in a different way.

central govt is policy maker and state gov is the executor. in cases like these, central doesn't interfere trusting the authorities of the state gov. They only interfere when the conflicts become a bit serious.
 
India's different elements work in a different way.

central govt is policy maker and state gov is the executor. in cases like these, central doesn't interfere trusting the authorities of the state gov. They only interfere when the conflicts become a bit serious.

How serious do you want for it to be? Any more serious and the whole thing will get out of hand then critics will accuse the centre of being to slow.
 
How serious do you want for it to be? Any more serious and the whole thing will get out of hand then critics will accuse the centre of being to slow.

This time, center will come in to play. There are conflicts going on in past for decades but didn't result in casualties.

Its like, as a parent, you don't maddle too much in siblings fightings. You do intervene when someone gets hurt or injured. At other times, you just ask them to be nice to each other.
 
This time, center will come in to play. There are conflicts going on in past for decades but didn't result in casualties.

Its like, as a parent, you don't maddle too much in siblings fightings. You do intervene when someone gets hurt or injured. At other times, you just ask them to be nice to each other.

Modi no matter what he does can't really win unless the fighting stops. The longer he leaves it the worse it is gonna get.
 
Modi no matter what he does can't really win unless the fighting stops. The longer he leaves it the worse it is gonna get.

Assam and other states case is a bit different. The link towards rest of the India passes through Assam so other states are depended upon be it transportation or travel or even health sector.

It won't be resolved that easily but should return to status quo for above reasons.
 
This time, center will come in to play. There are conflicts going on in past for decades but didn't result in casualties.

Its like, as a parent, you don't maddle too much in siblings fightings. You do intervene when someone gets hurt or injured. At other times, you just ask them to be nice to each other.

There is always some odd casualities but not of this scale.
 
Assam and other states case is a bit different. The link towards rest of the India passes through Assam so other states are depended upon be it transportation or travel or even health sector.

It won't be resolved that easily but should return to status quo for above reasons.

All the reason for Modi to be concerned even more. Not sure if the Punjab farmers protest has settled down or what.
 
All the reason for Modi to be concerned even more. Not sure if the Punjab farmers protest has settled down or what.

punjab farmers protest was a localized issue. The bill was accepted by the farmers of rest of India and hence no protest except a few states.

The central home minister is already in talks with both the states right now.
 
Two states in India's north-east have agreed to resolve their differences peacefully after their long-running border dispute erupted into deadly violence last week.

Last Monday clashes on the demarcation between Assam and Mizoram left six police officers dead in a major embarrassment for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government.

The two regions' chief ministers tweeted on Sunday that they would now seek an “amicable” approach to the dispute.

Mizoram chief minister Zoramthanga urged locals to stop posting “sensitive messages” on social media while his Assam counterpart Himanta Biswa Sarma highlighted the “spirit of the north-east.”

“What happened along the Assam-Mizoram border is unacceptable to the people of both states... Border disputes can only be resolved through discussion,” Sarma tweeted.

The six Assam policemen were shot dead in the clashes that also left 60 people injured. Both states have blamed each other for the violence which erupted after Mizoram alleged Assam had encroached on its territory.

Assam in turn accused Mizoram villagers of encroaching instead on reserve forest land.

Sarma belongs to Modi's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party while Zoramthanga, who uses only one name, heads the Mizo National Front — an ally of the ruling BJP alliance.

Mizoram was part of Assam till 1972 and became a state in its own right in 1987. The border argument has been going on since then with sporadic violence.

Indian media on Monday said the government might rely on satellite mapping to define the boundaries to help settle the dispute and others in the region.

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