Shillong, Jan 2 : Meghalaya chief minister Donkupar Roy and his cabinet colleagues will meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh here on Saturday to discuss the vexed Langpih issue with him.
Roy told this correspondent today that the Centre’s assistance was needed to solve the border disputes with Assam, especially the one over Langpih in West Khasi Hills border.
He said the Langpih issue would be included in the memorandum to be submitted to Singh after the inauguration of the Indian Science Congress here.
According to Roy, the dispute has been pending for the last 30 years. “We hope that the intervention of the Prime Minister will help solve the border dispute,” Roy said.
The controversy surfaced after Assam laid the foundation stone of a health sub-centre and initiated other development packages at Langpih in the West Khasi Hills border on May 31 last year.
It was then that Meghalaya protested, saying Langpih belonged to it and Assam police had forcefully occupied the place in 1979.