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KOLKATA: Expressing shock over the Assam-Mizoram inter-state border clash that has claimed the lives of at least five policemen and injured 60 others, Trinamool Congress all-India general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Tuesday said such unremitting incidents under the BJP's watch have invited the death of democracy in India. "Shocked & Stunned to hear about the ruthless violence that has transpired at the #AssamMizoramBorder. Such unremitting incidents under @BJP4India 's watch have invited the death of democracy in our nation. Partha Chatterjee, secretary general of Trinamool Congress, also condemned the incident. After allegations of encroachment of territory by both sides over the past few weeks and skirmishes that escalated tensions between the two states, violent clashes were reported along the inter-state border that ended in the death of at least five Assam policemen..