On Monday, 18 farmers belonging to the border town of Vairengte, who practice plantations at Aitlang area, where the border standoff flared up on June 29, wrote to chief minister Zoramthanga.
The farmers in the letter seeking the Mizoram CM’s intervention to take them back and protect their lands allegedly taken over by encroachers and police force from the neighbouring state.
The farmers claimed they have been practising various cultivations, including betel nuts, broomsticks and vegetables in their lands for more than 50 years now.
They alleged that they were afraid of going to their fields as Assam police personnel are currently camping there.
Mizoram shares about a 164.6 km long inter-state border with Assam.
Both the state governments have recently agreed to maintain peace and find an amicable solution to the boundary dispute through peaceful dialogue.
While Mizoram claimed the 509 square miles stretch of the inner line reserve forest notified under the Bengal Eastern Frontier Regulation (1873) in 1875 belong to it and is the actual boundary between Mizoram and Assam, the latter said the demarcation which was made based on the 1933 notification is its constitutional boundary.