From Our Correspondent
Guwahati: The chairperson of the UPA, Sonia Gandhi on Monday said that government would take little more time to send back the violence-displaced inmates of relief camps because of the sense insecurity still gripped them.
The UPA chairperson visited four relief camps of violence-hit at Kokrajhar and Dhubri districts accompanied by Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde to take stock of the situation as well as to meet violence-displaced people lodged in four relief camps in Kokrajhar and Dhubri in western Assam under very tight security.
After meeting the relief camp inmates at Titaguri High School in Kokrajhar at around 11-45am, Gandhi told media that the government would address to the security concern raised by relief camp inmates who are raring to go back home.
“People of both communities want to go back to their respective villages, but they are still afraid to do so as fear is still lurking in their minds. They want security, and I have asked the Home Minister (Shinde) and the Chief Minister (Tarun Gogoi) to take necessary steps,” the UPA chairperson said.
She said, “The relief distribution has been smooth, there is no complain about it. Two children were not well and doctors were attending them. Most the camp inmates were willing to go back home, provided they are provided proper security by the government. The State government said it would take little more time to arrange for proper security.”
“The UPA chairperson arrived here on Monday morning took a chopper from Guwahati airport first to Kokrajhar. After alighting from the chopper at the SAI field in Kokrajhar town, she straightaway drove to a relief camp at Titaguri High School just outside the town and interacted with the inmates – all Bodo tribals – there. Fifteen minutes later she visited another relief camp of Bodo tribe people at Debargaon in Kokrajhar , also having Bodo tribals.
She then proceeded to neighbouring Dhubri district to visit two more relief camps occupied by violence-hit Muslims. At least 76 persons from both Bodo and Muslim communities have been killed, while more than four lakh, including 1.5 lakh Bodos were displaced in the violence that swept Kokrajhar, Chirang districts under Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) and parts of adjoining Dhubri district outside the BTC.