Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma will meet his Meghalaya counterpart Conrad Sangma on Friday in Shillong to discuss the largely debated inter-state boundary dispute. The meeting is being held a day ahead of the visit of Union Home Minister Amit Shah to Meghalaya.
Both the chief ministers will hold discussions on the issue of boundary disputes in more than a dozen areas. Earlier, Conrad Sangma met Himanta Biswa Sarma in Guwahati on July 17 and discussed the need to find a solution to the age-old boundary dispute between the two states. After the discussion on Friday, another meeting will take place in Guwahati on the boundary issue where a team of officials from both states will be present. Sangma also informed that there might be joint visits in some areas by the officials of both the states.
Notably, this will be the first official meeting between the CMs of Assam and Meghalaya after their unofficial discussions on the issue earlier. The meeting will be of great significance since the Union Home Minister Amit Shah will chair a meeting with chief ministers of all the eight Northeast states on Saturday. The meeting will mark the siphoning of a roadmap to resolve border disputes among the states of the region.