In 1990, Historian Sita Ram Goel released a book named 'Hindu Temples: What Happened To Them' in which he mentioned over 1,800 Muslim structures that were built on Hindu Temple sites and/or used materials from destroyed temples.
There has been an uproar over the survey of several idols, including the Shringar Gouri idol located in the Kashi Vishwanath and the disputed structure of the Gyanvapi Mosque complex in Varanasi.
Himanta Biswa Sarma clarified that the cases against the Mizo police officers, responsible for the death of 6 Assam police personnel, will continue to be pursued.
The long-standing territorial dispute began when Mizoram used to be a district of Assam, known as Lushai Hills and was demarcated from the Cachar plains in accordance with an 1875 notification.