Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma today met Union Minister of Culture G Kishan Reddy, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya, Union Home Minister Amit Shah,  among other leaders separately in different meetings.

This is the second consecutive day that Assam CM met Amit Shah. Both the meetings with the Union Home Minister were held at the Parliament.  Office of G Kishan Reddy tweeted:- "Chief Minister of Assam, Shri @himantabiswa, along with MPs from the State called on the Minister Sri @kishanreddybjp at New Delhi, today. Minister held deliberations on various matters with the delegation led by CM." In meeting with Union Health Minister, they discussed ways on enhancing the health infrastructure of Assam and about the expansion of Namrup Fertilizer plant.

Sarma and the Prime Minister discussed Assam's journey to scale up developments in the state. The Chief Minister also briefed him about the Bodo peace process, measures to curb illegal drugs trafficking and implementation of various central schemes in the state.

Assam and Mizoram in a joint statement agreed to take forward the Centre's initiative of letting neutral forces patrol the disputed areas of the inter-state border for maintaining peace.

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