The situation on the Assam-Mizoram border remained tense but calm with battalions of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) patrolling the area along National Highway-306, said officials.
Secretary, Home Department of Mizoram, Pi Lalbiaksangi has written a letter to the Additional Secretary (Northeast) Piyush Goyal in the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) that armed police personnel were being mobilised by Assam at Dholai and Hawaithang along the inter-state border.
“There is also a news report that four platoons of commandos are part of this reinforcement,” Lalbiaksangi said, while requesting the MHA to issue “appropriate instructions” to Assam to “refrain from such reinforcements and pull back those contingents”.
Earlier, Mizoram had written to Home Secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla to immediately get Assam to lift the economic blockade clamped by residents of Barak Valley with the government’s alleged support.
