NEW DELHI: The Parliamentary standing committee on external affairs on Monday strongly batted for an early introduction of the Constitution Amendment Bill that will give effect to the India Bangladesh Land Boundary Agreement, a day after PM Narendra Modi asserted that the move won’t be detrimental to the interests of people in the Northeast.
The standing committee headed by Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, in its report, said the Constitution (One Hundred and Nineteenth Amendment) Bill, 2013 is in the “overall national interest” as it would pave way for broader bilateral ties with Bangladesh.
However, Mr Modi’s decision has angered some parties in Assam with some of them threatening to launch agitation.
India and Bangladesh had agreed to transfer their lands in adverse possession to straighten the zig-zag border.
