Centre alerts Assam govt about ULFA plan
New Delhi: The Home Ministry on Wednesday sounded a high alert and asked the Assam government to tighten security in the state in view of ULFA’s ‘army day’ on Friday.
Based on specific intelligence inputs, the Centre directed the state to deploy additional security personnel in all sensitive installations, crowded places, markets, railway stations and tracks to foil any attempt by the extremists to disrupt peace.
Sources said that the inputs suggested that the anti-talk faction of ULFA led by Paresh Baruah has been able to dispatch some explosive materials into Assam with the aim to carry out subversive activities ahead of or during the ‘army day’, observed on March 16 every year.
Guwahati, being the main the city of Assam, is always high on the target list of the ULFA hardliners and several deadly attacks were carried out by the insurgents in the recent past, sources said.
ULFA ‘commander-in-chief’ Baruah is opposed to any peace negotiation with the government and has vowed to continue his fight for a ‘sovereign’ Assam.
The faction led by ‘chairman’ Arabinda Rajkhowa has entered into dialogue process to solve their decades-long insurgency problem. (PTI)