Himanta Calls For Underground Routes Below ‘Chicken Neck’, Proposes Road Via Bhutan

way2barak, April 2: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has urged the Centre to expedite efforts in creating an underground railway and road networks both underneath and around the Chicken Neck – the 34 km narrow passage that connects the Northeast to the rest of the country through Siliguri in West Bengal.

The Chief Minister’s request comes in the wake of recent remarks made by Muhammed Yunus, the chief Advisor of Bangladesh’s interim government, who referred to India’s Northeast as a “landlocked” region and positioned Bangladesh as the “guardian” for access to the Bay of Bengal.