Guwahati, Aug. 28 -- Tensions resurfaced along the Assam-Meghalaya border on Thursday, August 28, after a group of Meghalaya supporters allegedly disrupted road repair work initiated by the Assam Government in Upper Lampi, located in the Boko-Chaygaon Co-District.

Workers had begun installing a culvert to protect the only road linking Boko to Upper Lampi when several Khasi residents, reportedly backed by Meghalaya supporters, intervened and forced the labourers to leave the site.

The stretch, a 40-kilometre road constructed by the Assam Government roughly five years ago, remains a longstanding point of dispute. Residents from Meghalaya's West Khasi Hills district continue to claim ownership of the area.

One of the labourers, Gopal Shar...