Apropos news item ‘Eviction plan, a hoax’, published on April 8, the United Naga Tribes Association of Border Areas (UNTABA) has pointed out that a sentence in the second paragraph ‘……currently the boundary between Nagaland and Assam in Dimapur areas were clearly defined by Lengri stream/river…..’ was wrongfully misrepresented.
In a press release, UNTABA chairman Hukavi T. Yeputhomi and general secretary Imsumongba Pongen stated that the sentence in no way reflected the clear stand of the UNTABA and the Naga people, “that – Nagaland as the 16th State in the Union of India was created under an Act of Parliament, the State of Nagaland Act, 1962 without definite boundary demarcation keeping in abeyance by referring to the Constitutional Provision of Article 3 & 4 of the Constitution of India and to be undertaken in due course of time.”
Therefore, the UNTABA said it has been demanding and fighting for amicable solution of inter-state boundary demarcation between the two states based on the implementation of Point No. 4 & 6 of the ‘9 Points Agreement’ of 1947 inter alia – by bringing back all the transferred Naga lands “illegally occupied” by Assam, an area of approximately 4,974.16 square Miles (equivalent of 12,883.07 square Kilometres).
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