Guwahati: Making its intention to have a behind the scene role in coming Assam Assembly election clear, the proscribe United Liberation Front of Assam (Independent) on Saturday vowed to take appropriate action against a surrendered member of the outfit in case he is granted party ticket to contest the polls.
The banned outfit led by fugitive leader Paresh Baruah who is opposed to talks with the Government of India, in a statement on Saturday said denounced the BJP’s reported move to give party nomination to a surrendered leaders of the outfit Bhaskar Sharma who is alleged by the ULFA (I) to be one of the mastermind of the forgettable spell extra-judicial (secret) killings of kin of ULFA men in Assam that had happened during the erstwhile Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) regime in the state during 1996-2001.
Bhaskar Sharma has been tipped to be the BJP’s candidate from Margherita LAC that is now represented by senior Congress MLA and former minister, Pradyut Bardoloi.The ULFA (I) hawks stated that, “The passing time will not wipe of those dreadful and dark phase of secret killings from the memory of indigenous people of Assam. Bhaskar Sharma was one of the villains (secret killers) of that blood splattered chapter in the history of Assam where dastardly ‘secret killers’ terrified the people of Assam.”
“We are not going to allow such a treacherous person like Bhaskar Sharma to be made a public leader through the election as it will be an unpardonable insult to the pride of the sons of the spoil in Assam. We vow to take appropriate action against such an attempt at any cost irrespective of his political allegiance,” the ULFA (I) statement said.
It may be mentioned that the proscribed ULFA had did it best behind the scene in 2001 Assembly election in Assam to ensure that then ruling party (AGP) headed Prafulla Kumar Mahanta who was branded by the outfit as the architect of secret killings of kin of ULFA members perpetrated in the state, bite the dust at the hands of Congress.
Since then the regional party that was formed out of the famous Assam Agitation against illegal Bangladeshi migrants in 1980s, it has been a forgettable phase in Assam politics.
The party that ruled Assam for two times has been reduced to a part of only nine MLAs in the 126-member Assam House.
In the coming election too the AGP neither have men nor resources to put up candidates of its own in all the LACs in the state and hence exploring ways to have pre-poll alliance with other parties.
