From Our Correspondent
Guwahati: The design of the anti-talks faction of the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) has once again been exposed with Assam Police recovering a huge cache of arms and ammunition that was being transported by the outfit on Wednesday night near Jorhat city of Assam.
Acting on a tip-off, Assam Police recovered the cache of arms and ammunition from a village about five kilometers away from Jorhat city centre.
The weapons and ammunition were being brought from Dibrugarh in a mini-van towards Jorhat. Police also arrested two ULFA militants were identified as Raju Saikia and Rajan Dutta, both hail from two villages near Jorhat city.
The recovery included nine landmines, five remote controls, one M-81 rifle, one A K 47 rifle, two magazines of automatic rifles and total 139 rounds of ammunition, one hand grenade and one bottle grenade.
Police suspected that few other ULFA militants who were travelling on motorcycles alongside the mini-van laded with weapons, managed to flee.
It has all along being apprehended that the anti-talks faction of the ULFA was out to strike terror with intention to jeopardize the current peace process between the Government of India and the pro-talks faction of the ULFA led by its chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa.
The ULFA hawks are being led by fugitive ‘commander-in-chief’ Paresh Barua suspected to be hiding in his base somewhere near Myanmar-China border.
The ULFA commander-in-chief who had been hounded out of his Bangladesh sanctuary two years back, has set up base in Myanmar with the help from Naga rebel groups NSCN (Khaplang) .
Paresh Barua has repeatedly defied calls from the Government of India to come forward for negotiation and maintains that talks with Government of India is not possible unless the agenda of discussion is focused on its demand for ‘sovereignty of Assam.’
