From Our Correspondent
GUWAHATI: Even as over 1.5 lakh people of Dhemaji district have been trying hard to get on with life after being hit hard by devastating flash floods of Gai-nadi and Jiadhal rivers, the pro-talks faction of the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) accused the Government of India for failing to give proper attention to mitigate the perennial flood fury that has devastated the economy of farmers and rural population over the years.
“The ‘Independence’ the country attained 64 years back has virtually no meaning for poor farmers and rural folk in Assam who have been reeling under perennial problem of flood and erosion while the government has miserably failed to mitigate their agony,” said the ULFA faction.
The ULFA faction which has decided to bid farewell to arms to settle their issued through dialogue with the government, in a statement has expressed it frustration at having to witness successive governments of Independent India remaining virtually mute spectators to the agony of lakhs of people of Assam whose lives have been severely jeopardized by the flood and erosion problem that requires much more attention from the government.
“For all those people of Assam who have been robbed off their lives, property, happiness and prosperity by the perennial flood and erosion, the 64 years long journey of Independent India rings hollow in their ears,” the ULFA central publicity secretary Mithinga Daimary stated.
The outfit said that the flash floods that wrecked havoc in Dhemaji district of Assam on August 15 leaving a trail of destruction, rendering thousands hapless people homeless stood testimony to failure of the government of Independent India to bail out those hapless people from their life agonized by the nature’s fury every year.
The ULFA faction have made a clarion call to all sections of the people of life in Assam and all organisations to donate generously whatever they could in the form of food, clothes and other essential items to provide temporary succour the flood-hit people in Dhemaji district.