This month, the Union home minister, Amit Shah, announced that the border would be fenced and the existing free movement regime withdrawn. The international border along the Northeast (with China, Myanmar and Bangladesh) has been a constant source of friction as well as a benediction for local residents. “This wrongly demarcated border was never corrected but simply forced upon us as the new international border which remains till this day as a great injustice to our people,” he contended. ADVERTISEMENTThe chief minister of Mizoram, Lalduhoma, sounded upbeat that the FMR and fencing issues would be addressed. In Tripura, for instance, most of the state’s border with Bangladesh is fenced.
