Assam-Meghalaya Border Row: Fresh Tensions Erupt over Plantation Drive in Lapangap

Govt holds meet on West Jaintia Hills-Karbi Anglong border - Meghalaya Monitor

Shillong, June 24: Chef Secretary DP Wahlang and Director General of Police Idashisha Nongrang jointly met Deputy Chief Minister in-charge Home Prestone Tynsong to discuss Lapangap border issue. Locals uprooted plantations and destroyed temporary structures set up by Assam in Lapangap, West Jaintia Hills border, on Wednesday morning. Both the DGP and the CS did not want to talk to journalists about the incident. MDA spokesperson and cabinet mini…

Assam-Meghalaya border row: Fresh tensions erupt over plantation drive in Lapangap

Guwahati: Fresh tensions erupted at a village on the disputed Assam-Meghalaya border on Wednesday after a mob uprooted saplings and dismantled wooden structures erected by the Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council (KAAC) of Assam for a plantation drive. According to sources, the incident occurred in Lapangap village, a site in disputed Assam-Meghalaya border claimed by residents […] The post Assam-Meghalaya border row: Fresh tensions erupt over plant…