Guwahati: Assam has been put on a general security alert in view of the threat by the anti-talk faction of ULFA to engage in subversive activities in the run-up to Independence Day celebrations.
“A general security alert has been sounded and security tightened throughout the state. Police pickets have been posted at vulnerable areas,” Additional Director General of Police (Law and Order) A P Rout told PTI on Friday.
“The anti-talk faction of ULFA (headed by Paresh Baruah) is desperate to carry out subversive activities to show its presence but the police has sounded the alert to thwart such plans,” he said.
Meanwhile, police said a few small groups of ULFA have managed to sneak into the state from their camps in Myanmar and some of other cadres are currently sheltered in Arunachal Pradesh’s Tirap, Changlang and Lohit districts and Mon district of Nagaland.
According to information available with the police, senior ULFA anti-talk faction leaders including Nayan Medhi and Rajiv Das are in Majuli River island and directing cadres in the region to plan subversive activities.
Also, an alert has been sounded throughout Tripura ahead of the Independence Day celebrations to thwart any possible subversive activity by insurgent outfits.
“Though this year the two banned outfits – All Tripura Tiger Force (ATTF) and National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) – have not yet given any such call but the government has sounded an alert so that the ultras cannot undertake any subversive activities,” IG (Police Control) Nepal Das said.
Vehicles entering the state capital are being subjected to checks and bomb and dog squad personnel are at work in crowded places and markets, Das said. (PTI)