The decision was taken days after Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh met Shah. File photo
New Delhi, February 8
The government has decided to immediately suspend the free movement regime (FMR) between India and Myanmar to ensure the internal security of the country and to maintain the demographic structure of India’s northeastern states bordering Myanmar, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Thursday.
“Since the Ministry of External Affairs is in the process of scrapping it, the home ministry has recommended the immediate suspension of the FMR,” he said in a post on X.
The FMR allowed people residing close to the India-Myanmar border to venture 16 km into each other’s territory without any documents.
The decision was taken days after Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh met Shah. The former is learnt to have conveyed to the Home Minister that the strife being faced in the state since May last year was due to the FMR.
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