Shillong, Oct 4: Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu has asserted the need for a ‘give and take approach’ for resolving the boundary disputes among the North Eastern states.
“We should have a give and take approach. If you sit across the tables, discuss at various levels, some of these problems can be resolved very easily,” Naidu said while addressing a workshop on changing role of North Eastern Council (NEC) in development of NE region on Monday.
Stating that politics should not come in the way, the Vice President said, “We may have different political parties but all of us want to do something good to the people. That being the case, the states must have constant dialogues among themselves.”
He also suggested that the states can have common dialogues through the North Eastern Council.
“What are the issues you want the Centre to step in, what are the issues yourselves can resolve, these are some of the issues which you have to focus…,” he said.
Naidu also stressed that 75 years of Indian Independence is not ordinary.
“We have made good progress but we would have made much more as ours is a vibrant nation. Because of foreign invasion, lots of money was looted and we were cheated out of the development…now that is history. We should plan and we should be united,” he said.
