Tensions on the Assam-Mizoram border may have eased, but the damage to the two northeastern states trying to move forward and out of the quagmire of conflict cannot be ignored.
Since the Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) took over Assam, the state has been plagued by division from boundary to the boundary - chaos surrounding the implementation of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and hyphenated with the Cattle Conservation Act (Amendment), Population Control Policy, Increased Community Rhetoric and Now the Border Dispute and followed by bitterness with Mizoram.
Expanding old ethnic fault lines at an accelerating NRC rate, dividing communities and deepening regional conflicts is not what Assam needs. The state has now twice elected the ruling BJP, expecting stability and growth - two words that sound politically cliché but are still central to voter choice, especially in a state that has been around for a long time. now faces ethnic violence and remains cut off. of what is considered the "traditional" of India.
In Assam, the BJP has promised to fulfil people's aspirations to remove it from the periphery and improve access to `Vikas. By reopening old wounds, creating new ones, and throwing Assam into the conflict, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma have angered the people of the state and voters trusted them.