Arunachal Pradesh, Assam CMs sign Namsai declaration to resolve dispute of 86 villages

Jul 15, 2022

Namsai (Arunachal Pradesh), July 15 (ANI): Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu and Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on July 15 signed Namsai declaration to resolve dispute of 86 villages. “In 2010, Arunachal had withdrawn claim on 3 villages.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,” said Assam CM. “PM Modi and HM Shah have suggested to both Assam, Arunachal Pradesh governments to resolve their border dispute during the period of Amrit Mahotsav. In view of that desire, governemnts of Arunachal and Assam have sat 3 times so far for meetings. 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,” he added.