Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio to lead all party delegation to meet Union Home Minister Amit Shah

Kohima, Mar 8: Led by Nagaland Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio an all-party delegation would soon meet Union Home Minister Amit Shah to urge him not to scrap the Free Movement Regime (FMR) with neighbouring Myanmar.

Last year, the Union Ministry of Home Affairs announced that the FMR, which allows people residing along the India-Myanmar border to travel 16 km into each other’s territory without a visa, would be scrapped soon.

On Friday, Nagaland Assembly unanimously decided that an all-party delegation would meet Union Home Minister to explain him the “sentiment and resentment of the Naga people” against the MHA’s decision to cancel the FMR between India and Myanmar.

The delegation would apprise the Home Minister about the concerns and unanimity of the house, which adopted unanimous resolutions passed on March 1, 2024, and the state cabinet decisions of February 8, 2024, and January 6, 2025.

The Nagaland and Mizoram governments and a large number of political parties in the two northeastern states have been opposing both border fencing and the FMR. Four northeastern states — Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Nagaland, and Mizoram — share a 1,643-km unfenced border with Myanmar.

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