Assam Times: Home Ministry officials met PCG members covertly to restart peace process

Home Ministry officials met PCG members covertly to restart peace process
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Nagendra  Sarma on 23 August, 2008 07:17:00
 
Two officials of the Home Ministry from Delhi are reported to have visited
Guwahat on the sly and met the PCG members in a bid to resume peace talk which
was stunned without any result and since then no efforts were made neither by
the Government nor by the PCG. A report quoting a highly placed source said
that after the declaration of cease fire by the A and C company of 28
battalion of ULFA the Government was receiving reports from its sources that
there might be great turbulence and wide spade of violence in the state which
might reversely effect the prospectus of the ruling party in the state in the
coming parliamentary election. Moreover the Government was stated to have the
report of a violent clashes between the pro-talk and the rival group of the
ULFA. Government also had the information of the direction given to the ULFA
cadres by its top brass leaders to be indulged in savageries on the eve of
Independence Day which passed off peacefully as the officials of the Home
Ministry visiting Guwahaty had the convincing discussion with the PCG members
and expressed Governments willingness (quite ahead of the Day) to sit across
the table with the members of the PCG for preparing the ground for peace talk
with the ULFA top leaders. After this strategy of the Home Ministry the members
of the PCPI were reported to have met the Governor of the state Mr.Shivacharan
Mathur and urged upon him to make efforts for peace talk with the ULFA leaders.