Guwahati: The Bodo tribe political party called Bodoland People’s Front (BPF) has termed the marauding outlawed militant groups National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) led by Sangbijit or the NDFB (S) as an anti-Bodo outfit that was out to isolate the Bodo tribe community.
The BPF leader and the chief executive member of the Bodoland Territorial Autonomous District Council (BTC), Hagrama Mohilary has stated that since the NDFB (S) is led by Sangbijit who is not a Bodo but a Karbi, the outfit could do no good for Bodo people rather it would try to harm Bodo people.
“The NDFB (S) has attacked different non-Bodo communities and it will isolate Bodo people from other communities. In such an atmosphere, Bodo people will not be able to move out of Assam,” Mohilary said while referring to NDFB (S) attacks on Hindi-speaking persons. Sangbijit alias Sirsing Ingty, the leader of the anti-talks faction of National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) has now emerged as the most trouble-making militant leader in Assam which was passing through a phase of comparative peace recently with 16 militants groups are engaged in different stages of peace process with the government.
The Sangbijit faction of the NDFB or the NDFB(S) is apparently bent upon keeping Assam on boil in order to puncture the atmosphere of peace. Sangbijit alias Sirsing Ingty split the NDFB led by Ranjan Daimary in the year 2012 years back once the latter showed interest to hold dialogue with Government of India. Though he is leading a Bodo tribe militant group, Sangbijit is not a Bodo but a member of Karbi tribe community. According to security sources, Sangbijit has now taken shelter in Myanmar and is controlling operations of the outfit from there. The faction has set up base in Myanmar with the help of anti-talks faction of the ULFA The outfit has been on a spree of abduction and extortions in Bodoland Territorial Autonomous District Council (BTC) areas of Assam and in areas close to Assam-Arunachal Pradesh and Assam-Bhutan border.
It used to lure vulnerable unemployed Bodo youth including young women to his ranks in the lure of money. Many Bodo youths were trapped by the outfit after they were promised a job with good salaries. The fresh recruits are sent for training in Myanmar camps of the outfit through Nagaland.
In the later part of last year, Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi had instructed Assam police to work out a specific strategy to deal with the threat posed by Sangbijit faction of the NDFB. An IGP rank official of the state police was posted in the BTC areas to maintain a sustained operation against the insurgent group.
There has been mass protests in the BTC areas against the marauding NDFB faction as the common people in the area don’t want fresh trouble after all the major Bodo militant groups had joined the peace process.
