Nagaland-Assam border state out of control: Home Ministry

MoS for Home Kiren Rijiju is due to meet the CMs of Assam and Nagaland

Update: 2014-08-21 04:34 GMT
Protestors block the National Highway 37 at Geleki in Kaziranga , Assam against the killing of Assamese people by suspected NSCN at Assam Nagaland border in Golaghat on Wednesday. (Photo: PTI )
New Delhi: The Prime Minister’s Office stepped in on Wednesday to douse the violent clashes on the Assam-Nagaland border. Top government sources said the PMO was considering a “super relief fund” for victims in order to provide a “healing touch”. 
 
Minister of state for home Kiren Rijiju is due to meet the CMs of Assam and Nagaland on Thursday.
 
In the day-long consultations between the PMO and the MHA, it was also decided that the crisis requires “political intervention” by the Centre after the MHA noted the situation was now well out of the control of the two states.
 
Union home minister Rajnath Singh then spoke to Assam CM Tarun Gogoi and Nagaland CM T.R. Zeliang, and urged them to take strict action against miscreants.

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