At least two or three departments, home-land records and rev enue were instructed to furnish all the documents to the chief minister's office before the chief ministerial level talks between Meghalaya's D.D Lapang and Assam'sTarun Gogoi.
The tentative date of the meeting has not been listed, but Meghalaya Chief Minister D D Lapang told newsmen that he will propose to his counterpart some times after his return from New Delhi. Lapang while emphasizing about the importance to solve the bilateral issue of border dispute amicably, also said that he had the relevant papers and maps from the department concern in order to help him push his claim over the land that Assam is also claiming.
“We have to do proper homework and besides the government documents and maps, the local population land documents has also been sought to justify the same”, stated Lapang in the sidelines of the Meghalaya Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) executive meeting in Shillong.
However, the proposed Chief Ministerial meeting is expected to give more focus to Langpih, the disputed area located in the fringes of West Khasi Hills of Meghalaya and Kamrup district of Assam.
It is worth noting that there are 12 areas of differences between Assam and Meghalaya. Hoping that the issue can be solved amicably by the governments of the two states, Lapang also felt that there is no need to seek the centre’s intervention at this juncture. “We can apprise the centre about the problems between the two states but there is a room for an amicable solution”, concluded the Meghalaya chief minister.
It may be mentioned that the Assam minister in-charge of health and government spokesman Hemanta Biswa Sarma had on record said that with both states being run by the Congress led governments the process to solve the inter-state boundary dispute will be far easier.