Want to carry Northeast on par with developed states: Union Home Minister Amit Shah

Express News Service

GUWAHATI: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday mentioned a peaceable Northeast is one in every of Centre’s three objectives for the area, together with safeguarding native cultures, and growth.

“We not only want to protect local cultures, languages and traditions but also enrich them. We want to make the region insurgency, and dispute-free and give a platform to the youth to compete with the world,” Shah mentioned, after unveiling a statue of Swami Vivekananda on the Ramakrishna Mission Ashram at Narottam Nagar in Arunachal Pradesh.

“We want to ensure that the states here are on a par with the developed states. Over 60 per cent of areas on the Assam-Meghalaya boundary had been freed from disputes,” Shah mentioned.

The two states had signed an settlement to resolve their disputes in six of the 12 areas. He added that the Assam-Arunachal downside might be resolved by 2023. Stressing how PM Narendra Modi has caused change, Shah mentioned, “Over 9,000 youth, who were wielding the gun, joined the mainstream.”

He highlighted how points like bandhs in Manipur, the Bru unrest in Mizoram-Tripura, and issues in Assam’s Bodo areas had been resolved. “Modiji has reduced the gap between the Northeast and the rest of the country,” Shah mentioned.