GUWAHATI: The situation on the Assam-Mizoram boundary took an ugly turn in the past 48 hours with many shops and houses burnt and over 50 people injured, officials said on Sunday. During the last few days, aggressive Mizo miscreants backed by the armed police of the neighbouring State have been acting like marauders to forcibly occupy land of Assam in the border areas of Karimganj, Hailakandi and Cachar districts.
Evoking derisive reactions to the local media, Assam Forest Minister Parimal Suklabaidya, during his on-the-spot inspection to see the Mizo aggression in the Rongpur area, made a statement that "it's a matter of annual festival". That was after the armed Mizo goons penetrated deep inside the Chiragi-Shingla Reserve Forest and Rongpur in Karimganj district and raised illegal structures.
How fortified they had made their positions could well be understood from the fact that a fact-finding delegation of BJP leaders were detained on the way by IRBn of Mizoram and forced them to return. The BJP delegation comprised Karimganj district president Subrata Bhattacharjee, Ratabari MLA Bijoy Malakar, and Zila Parishad president Ashis Nath.
Another area of conflict due to the Mizo aggression is Gutguti on the frontier with Mizoram in Hailakandi district. Many Mizos raised illegal structures well inside Assam land and even set up a Police check post, besides threatening the local residents. Much later, security forces from the district headquarters reached the spot to dismantle the illegal structures and the Police outpost. But, the worst shape of Mizo aggression was seen all through Saturday and the following morning when Khulicherra-Lyalapur — 5 km area in Cachar district on the border with Mizoram and 55 km from here — was virtually turned into a battle ground, a sort of bloody confrontation between the aggressors and the local residents.
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