ULFA-I uses guerrilla tactic only for self defence and not for waging any waragainstIndia, said Dr Abhizeet Asom.
In a message sent to media on the Protest Day on Saturday, the ULFA-I chairman said that the outfit has been struggling to save the rights of the indigenous people of Assam.
According to the elusive ULFA-I leader, the "immature" studentleaders who spearheaded the Assam Agitation surrendered before New Delhi when they signed an accord to deport Bangladeshi aliens in 1985 with Rajiv Gandhi.
"However, India in contrast is seeking military solution to our legitimate struggle to establish our birthright as enshrined in international statues and our indigenous masses are responding to the call of the hour to own what belong to them," said the ULFA supremo.
He further spoke of the India, Bangladesh land deal with reference to the history of East Pakistan. The outfit also said that the move to give refugee status to the non-Muslim Bangladeshis are strange.
GUWAHATI: Security forces seized gold weighing nearly 1 KG from a person at the Lokoriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport on Friday. Acting on a tip off, the CISF jawans raided Ankush Chetti who was preparing to depart the city to New Delhi by the IndiGo flight in the morning. When thoroughly checked, the gold biscuits worth ₹30 lakh was discovered in his rectum. He was arrested and the biscuits were recovered at the Guwahati Medical College Hospital. Two days back another person was arrested from the airport as he was preparing to board on a New Delhi bound flight.
NAMRUP: Hundreds of bikers took out a huge rally in Namrup on Friday mounting more pressure on the government to expedite the proposed fourth unit of the Brahmaputra Valley Fertilizer Corporation. With banners and festoons tied in their two wheelers demanding the early to set up the proposed unit, the bikers started the rally from the BVFCL main gate to Naharkatia SDO (civil) office where they submitted a memorandum reiterating their demand. BVFCL Workers' Union, Namrup AASU, All Assam Tai Ahom Students Union and Namrup Gramya Unnoyan organized the rally where more than 300 bikers participated. A couple of years back the government accepted the proposal to set up the fourth unit to boost...
JAGIROAD: Jagiroad, an industrial township in the outskirt of Guwahati breaks into a sea of humanity where the hills people have come down to their plains counterparts to boost the age old bonhomie in the name of the Junbeel Mela which is underway on Friday. Loaded with the baskets full of ginger, turmeric et al, hundreds of the hills people have reached the venue on Thursday to showcase the historic bartering tradition with those living in the plains who has no dearth of vegetables, fruits, sticky rice and what not. Hundreds of people from the country and abroad are pouring in the event venue to catch a glimpse of it organized jointly by the Tiwa Autonomous Council and Assam Tourism...
MORIGAON: Two stray rhinos have been unleashing no less terror in a remote hamlet in Morigaon district after it came from the Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary on Thursday night. Local residents in Doipara spotted one of the rhinos moving in the open field in the morning. A team of forest guards has been trying to drive the rhinos back to the sanctuary. "I heard two rhinos. But came to see one. As I was walking in the open field came to see the animal moving to and fro striking panic among the cattle," said a villager. Another villager said," I found it very interesting as I came to see a buffalo running away after it spotted the rhino."
TINSUKIA:The security forces deployed in the counter insurgency operations are fanning in the sense jungle bordering Arunachal Pradesh in search of the Naga rebels who allegedly set afire nearly a dozen of oil tankers near Namchik. Army, police and para military forces have been carrying out the offensive in a huge area where the rebels are believed to have been hiding to carry out subversive incidents. There are some disturbing inputs that led by dreaded ULFA-I leader Rupam Asom, a group of rebels has been moving in the area yo strike in the run up to the Republic Day celebrations. But the security forces have not been able to capture any rebel during the ongoing crackdown. A group of...
NAMRUP: Properties worth more than ₹3lakh reduced to ashes when a devastating fire engulfed three houses in Namrup on Friday. The incident took place in the wee hours in Nagadolong area where the fire which originated from electric short circuit engufed the house of Jayanta Bokolial. Local residents in large number came to the rescue. But by then the fire spread to his rented houses and the cowshed which charred his cattle to death. It took several hours to extinguish the fire which already ravaged properties worth lakhs of rupees. There is,however, no loss of human life.
DIMAKUCHI: Army jawans on Thursday claimed to have captured a hardcore rebel in Udalguri who has been unleashing terror in the form of extortion for the last couple of weeks. Acting on a tip off, the Red Horn division jawans picked up Mukuta Boro as he was on the way to Khairabari to extort money. A pistol along with a magzine was seized from his possession. Interrogation is going on to extract more details.
NEW DELHI:There seems to be no respite for Rakesh Paul as the Supreme Court has declined the bail petition of the APSC chairman who has been languishing in the Guwahati Central Jail in a graft case. A division bench of the apex court comprising Justice Deepak Gupta and Justice MB Lukur rejected his bail plea after hearing the merit of the complaint registered in the Bhangagarh police station where he was accused of accepting graft promising job of an agriculture officer from a candidate. Paul s couple of months back procured bail in the notorious cash for job scam where he accepted money and resorted to forgery and ebsured ASC, APS job for 25 officers who...
NEW DELHI: Nagaland and Meghalaya are simultaneously going to the assembly polls on February 27 since the current assembly terms for both the north eastern states are expiring in March. The full bench of the country's poll panel who addressed the press conference in New Delhi on Thursday said the model code of conduct has come in to force as soon as the poll schedule was announced. They said the governments in the three north eastern states of Meghalaya, Nagaland and Tripura now can't make new announcement and a mechanism is in place to strictly monitor the implementation of the model code of conduct.The notification for the two north eastern states would be issues on January 31...
NEW DELHI: The Election Commission has enforced it's model code of conduct in Meghalaya, Nagaland and Tripura which are going to the assembly polls on February 27 and February 18 respectively. The full bench of the country's poll panel who addressed the press conference in New Delhi on Thursday said the model code of conduct has come in to force as soon as the poll schedule was announced. They said the governments in the three north eastern states of Meghalaya, Nagaland and Tripura now can't make new announcement and a mechanism is in place to strictly monitor the implementation of the model code of conduct. Tripura is going to the polls on February 18 while Meghalaya and Nagaland are...
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