Assam-Arunachal can resolve border dispute’

Assam-Arunachal can resolve border dispute’

Context:

•  Nyokum Yullo festival in Itanagar.

Why in news?

• Assam Minister Ranjit Dutta, who was in Itanagar to attend a tribal festival, exuded confidence that the decades-old boundary dispute between the two States, can be resolved through “meaningful” dialogue.

Permanent solution:

• Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal has been initiating measures with his Arunachal counterpart Pema Khandu to hammer out a permanent solution to the border issue.
• “Divisive forces” were trying to “destabilise peace” in Assam and Arunachal Pradesh.

About Nyokum Yullo festival:

• The festival is celebrated by the Nyishi community of Arunachal Pradesh every year to invoke God’s blessings for good harvest and communal harmony.

‘Cordial relations’

• Till 1978 both the States (Assam and Arunachal Pradesh) were under one administrative unit of ‘bor Axom’ (Greater Assam).
• The people of both States since time immemorial have been maintaining cordial relations.
•  Nyokum Yullo Celebration Committee chairman Ha Tatu, on his part, said the presence of a Minister from neighbouring Assam will cement the ties between the people of the two States.