Tarun Gogoi asks PM Narendra Modi to intervene in border row

Guwahati: Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Saturday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to personally intervene in restoring peace in trouble-torn disputed territory of Uriamghat along Assam-Nagaland border which led to death of seven persons so far. Mr Gogoi in a letter to the PM, also requested for deployment of additional ten companies of CRPF personnel in the area besides setting up of security pickets in the affected villages. The situation along the disputed border ares on Saturday was peaceful, but nearly ten thousand people have fled their homes to take shelter in relief camps. Assam chief secretary Jitesh Khosla said that the Nagaland government “is cooperating with us though certain underground elements were fomenting trouble.”