Assam-Mizoram border: Organised blockade on border ends, however truckers refuse to maneuver

The scenario on the Assam-Mizoram border remained tense however calm as CRPF troops have began patrolling National Highway 306 between the 2 states, in energy.
Officials in Assam’s Barak valley mentioned organized blockade on Assam’s roads resulting in Mizoram had been lifted and no group was now out on the streets attempting to cease truckers or different autos. After a conflict on Monday between Assam and Mizoram police forces on a disputed border forest tract, numerous teams within the Barak Valley had introduced a blockade of Mizoram, drawing sharp protests from the neighbouring state.
However, “palpable fear of entering an area which was like a war zone is holding back trucks. Most truckers have stopped their vehicles in Dholai village near the border with Mizoram,” mentioned officers.
An extended line of vans parked on the freeway now marks the entry level to Dholai’s bazaar. Land-locked Mizoram has been getting its provides by way of Tripura throughout this week as stress and unrest held up its regular provide route by means of Assam.
Assam authorities had on Thursday issued an unprecedented journey advisory asking folks to not journey to Mizoram and suggested folks from the state working or staying there to “exercise utmost caution.”
Despite an settlement Wednesday hammered by the Union dwelling ministry to keep up calm on the border and to permit a impartial central police power to behave as peace-keepers, the 2 states had traded costs about reinforcing police pickets and of not pulling again from the border on Thursday.
Tension alongside the border with Mizoram in Cachar and Hailakandi districts of Assam have been escalating since October 2020 with frequent incidents of burning of homes and encroachment of land.

The two states share a 164.6-km border between Assam’s Cachar, Hailakandi and Karimganj districts, and Mizoram’s Kolasib, Mamit and Aizawl.
Both states have differing interpretations of their territorial border. While Mizoram believes that its border lies alongside an ‘inner line’ drawn up in 1875 to guard tribals from exterior affect, Assam goes by a district demarcation carried out within the Thirties.