New Delhi, Mar 23 : The Centre may finally strike a deal with the Dima Halam Daoga (Nunisa) before Rongali Bihu, on April 14, Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi said today.
“Nothing has been finalised yet but we may have something before Bihu,” he said after a meeting on various issues with finance minister Pranab Mukherjee today.
Negotiation is stuck over the outfit’s chief Dilip Nunisa’s insistence that over 90 Dimasa-majority villages should be included in Dima Hasao district. These villages are currently part of Nagaon and Cachar districts.
To this, the state government has not agreed.
“We are ready for give and take but have not heard from the government,” Nunisa told The Telegraph.
It may be some time before the destination is reached as Nunisa is sulking over difficulty in meeting Gogoi in Dispur.
“It is easy to meet the home minister in Delhi but to meet the chief minister in Guwahati is like meeting Barack Obama,” Nunisa said over phone.
A delegation of DHD leaders met interlocutor P.C. Haldar on February 21 in Delhi but things have not been moving since.
For three months, Nunisa complained, he had applied for an appointment with Gogoi but there was no reply from the CMO.
The Centre feels that the relationship between the state and a militant outfit in a peace pact should be cordial.
The realisation came after the Karbi outfit, the United People’s Democratic Solidarity (UPDS), was disappointed as it was not given a fair chance by the state Congress to contest the Karbi Anglong territorial council elections.
The UPDS later announced that it might abrogate the tripartite Memorandum of Settlement it had recently signed.
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