Meghalaya Trinamool Congress on Tuesday launched 10 pledges for the state and its one of many guarantees was to revoke the Border Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed with the Authorities of Assam.

Whereas releasing its manifesto, which the get together calls its pledges, AITC Nationwide Common Secretary Abhishek Banerjee knowledgeable that police examine posts in any respect strategic border areas will probably be arrange.

“To handle the problem of unwarranted give up of land to Assam and shield the residents within the border villages and border MoU signed with the Authorities of Assam will probably be revoked,” Banerjee stated.

“Once we make a pledge, we struggle for its implementation until the final drop of our blood. We guarantee you that inside 100 days of forming the federal government, our get together will implement TMC’s 10 Pledges for Meghalaya,” he added.

Polling in Meghalaya will happen on February 27 whereas the counting of votes scheduled for March 2.

Assam and Meghalaya governments in March 2022 signed an settlement within the nationwide capital in a bid to resolve their 50-year-old boundary dispute. The settlement was signed by Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and his Meghalaya counterpart Conrad Sangma within the presence of Union residence minister Amit Shah.

The pact sought to resolve the protracted dispute in six of the 12 locations alongside the 884.9-km border between the 2 states. Nonetheless, sad with the boundary demarcation by each states, a bit of individuals, significantly these dwelling within the border areas began agitation and protest.

A petition subsequently was filed within the Meghalaya Excessive Courtroom. The Meghalaya Excessive Courtroom later directed there will probably be no bodily demarcation and erection of boundary posts on the bottom within the Assam-Meghalaya border until February 6.

Nonetheless, the Supreme Courtroom placed on maintain the Meghalaya Excessive Courtroom’s interim order staying the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Assam and Meghalaya.

On November 22 final yr, not less than six individuals together with 5 Khasi villagers and one Assam forest guard have been killed in a firing by Assam police at Mukroh village in West Jaintia Hills District.

In December 2022, West Bengal chief minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief Mamata Banerjee met members of the family of the victims of the Mukroh firing incident in Meghalaya and promised to not relaxation till justice is served.

“Don’t fear; we’re with the individuals of Mukroh. We’ll struggle tooth and nail to make sure that the members of the family get justice for the barbaric incident,” the TMC supremo stated. She additionally prolonged ex-gratia help of Rs 5 lakh every to the households of the victims.

Trinamool Congress chief Mukul Sangma stated that the get together’s manifesto is “nothing imaginative however utterly sensible.”

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