Tag: Ashta Lakshmi

Last week's events in the Northeastern states were a watershed moment in history. The chief ministers of Assam and Meghalaya agreed to settle boundary disputes in six of the twelve disputed areas, reducing the area covered by the draconian Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA). Ashta Lakshmi, coined by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, refers to the eight Indian states. Many stalled infrastructure projects have been expedited, which is to the credit of the NDA administration in power at the national level. In spite of the fact that Parliament must yet ratify the mutually agreed-upon border solution, this was the first time a problem that had generated friction and even violence at the border had been elevated to the level of CMs. Members of a regional committee also went out into the di