From Our Correspondent
GUWAHATI:The outlawed Unoted Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) was preparing to go for a negotiated political settlemes of ‘Assam-India” conflict way back in 2001, but the efforts were stymied by the ‘unjustified adamant and mysterious personal’ stand of its ‘commander in chief’ Paresh Barua againt it.
It was dislosed in a statement issued to the media by the ULFA pro-talks faction led by its ‘chairman’ Arabinda Rajkhowa here on Sunday.
The statement which criticised Paresh Barua’s current overture to belittle the on-ging peace process between the ULFA(pro-talks) and the Government of India cliamed that “It was Paresh Barua’s unjustified adamant attitude and mysterious stand had failed the outfit to implement its permanent council’s decision to go for a political solution to the ‘Assam-India’ conflict instead of a ‘military solution’ though it was approved by the then Bhutan based central executive committee’s of the outfit way back in 2001.”
The ULFA faction said Paresh Barua has lost any right to justify any of his current actions in the light of ULFA’s ‘constitution’ after the majority of its leaders and armed battalions have extended support to the ‘chairman’ Arabinda Rajkhowa to go for peace talks with Government of India to find a solution to the vexed problem.
The ULFA doves also called upon the fugitive Paresh Barua who is opposed to the current peace process to desist from making baseless comments and statements through the media about the ‘blueprint’ prepared by the faction for political negotiation with the government of India for the ‘blueprint’ has been kept as a closely guarded secret till date.
Meanwhile, the Government is also apparently is not in the mood to affect the peace proves with the ULFA only because of absence of opposition of Paresh Barua who says he will not come for any negotiation that doesn’t focus on ULFA’s demand for sovereignty.
Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi who is also the Home Minister of the statw, maintains that the government will not wait inordinately for Paresh Barua to come to start the actual negotiation with the ULFA. He says the talks will start soon and Paresh Barua can join it, if he wants, on a later date. Union Home Minister P Chidambaram had earlier entrusted Gogoi to facilitate peace talks with the ULFA using all his resources.
Paresh Barua is reportedly holed up somewhere in Myanmar with help of Naga rebel group NSCN-K along with a small group of armed rebels. His faction is trying to woo vulnerable unemployed youths from certain prockets of eastern Assam disricts into the ranks of his depleting faction to bolster the cadre strength, according to security sources,
(EoM)