ULFA hawks talk of purging Assam of social evils

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From Our Correspondent

 GUWAHATI: In a subtle attempt to assume its role of moral policing in the state, the anti-talks faction of the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) on Tuesday expressed its concern over rising number of youth taking to consumption of alcohol and rising trend of immoral activities in the state. The fast declining respect to women folk among the younger generation is also an area of concern for the anti-talk section of the militant outfit.

In a statement issued to the media, the ULFA critcised the ‘colonial Indian government’ for engineering degeneration of the youth in Assam by facilitating mushrooming of IMFL outlets in all the nook and corners of the state.

The ULFA faction said that it was alarming that a section of youth have become addicted to fast motorbikes and mobile phones and are indulged in all sorts of immoral activities posing threat to social peace and order in the state.

While lauding a section of women in the state coming out on the street against alcoholism and the thriving liquor trade, it said it was game to play its role in purging the society of so many social evils subject to approval and support from the people of Assam.

The ULFA faction called upon the media in the state to play a positive role in this regard and allow the people of the state to air their views openly about a possible role to be played by the ULFA as a moral police.

The outfit reminded the people of Assam about the efforts it had taken earlier to punish those indulged in alcoholism, liquor trade and other varied forms of social evils that caused harm to the society.

However, security sources sounded sceptical of the ULFA’s intention to assume the role of moral police and termed it a ploy to regain its foothold among the vulnerable section of the society and try restoring its declining mass base to some extent.

It may be mentioned that on the New Year’s Day, the ULFA circulated a video through e-mail which showed scores of ULFA cadres in camouflage fatigue taking vow to liberate Assam in a makeshift camp comprising a few bamboo huts in an undisclosed terrain.

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