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: Braving a pinching cold wave millions of people are soaked in the joy of Magh Bihu festivity with feasting and merry making on Saturday night. People of all walks of life celebrated Uruka to be dominated with community feasting and bonfire on Saturday night a couple of hours before the Bihu where the folks are busy with preparing Meji, a wooden or bamboo structure to be lit up early in the morning to mark the puja offering to the fire god. Apart from feasting and bon fire, people in the rural areas thronged the open fields to hold cultural function with folk songs in the open fire sides. "Our pomp and gaiety has disallowed the cold wave to grip further. Whole night we are...
GUWAHATI: The United Liberation Front of Asom (I) has urged the people to endorse the age old and indigenous culture and tradition to help the Assamese stand tall as a nation. In a statement released on the eve of Magh Bihu, ULFA(I) chairman Abhijet Asom said since the festival is directly agriculture based, the peasants should adopt the indigenous seeds instead of the imported hybreed seeds. He said instead of the imported culture the people should promote the local and indigenous language and culture in the annual festival of feasting and merry making.
Kokrajhar: A six member team of the Central Bureau of Investigation(CBI) has started probing the murder of Lafikul Islam Ahmed in Kokrajhar four months after the sensational case struck the state. Led by CBI SP attached to special crime branch Upendra Kumar Agarwal, the CBI team based in Kolkata arrived in Kokrajhar on Thursday and visited at the spot at Titaguri Bazar and rushed at Salakati SBI branch office. The CBI team which is camping at the Kokrajhar Circuit House and has been extracting inputs for the probe. The investigation agency has already questioned some eye witness apart from interacting with the police officials. They interrogated the owner of the JK Trader...
MARGHERITA: The much-hyped fresh lease of life in the country's surface communication sector has been proved a futile one if one travels on the Margherita-Pengree Road. The local residents reposed faith on the Sarbananda Sonowal Government who promised to uplift the road condition. Accordingly, a huge portion ofthe road was repaired. But within a short spell of five months the entire portion has become non motorable and the local residents here blame the poor quality of materials used in it. Margherita MLA Bhaskar Sharma opened the road after the repairing and maintenance works were over on May 6, 2017. But the entire vital road repaired under the Assam Road Maintenance...
Kokrajhar: Kokrajhar along with other BTAD districts are reeling under severe cold as the mercury level has gone down, down and down. The day marked nearly 9 degree Celsius early in the morning forcing the people to resort to sit along the fireside. Dense fogs have compounded the situation. 'This year saw heavy cold mercury since past few days.The cold wave is becoming due to imbalance of environment', said a local resident in Kokrajhar.
Namrup: Many women entrepreneurs in Namrup claimed to have been benefitted as they attended an income generating workshop which concluded on Friday. Talking to www.assamtimes.org Institution of Engineers India-Upper Assam Local centre who organized it said the skill development workshop evoked huge response in Namrup. The workshop imparted training on cutting, tailoring and fashion designing held under the Namrup Town Committee under Chairmanship of Neetu Sonowal Buragohain. Chandrama Baruah noted Northeast fashion designer said, "through this skill development workshop on tailoring every women skills are produced in a new way with their self repect earning ." Rima...
KOKRAJHAR: The police have arrested Budhiram Hembrom a month after he allegedly killed Gohai Murmu in Dhordhora village near Kachugaon in Kokrajhar district. According to police, Hembrom is the prime accused in the sensational murder case registered in Kachugaon PS case no. 65/2017 u/s 302 IPC r/w Sec. 27 Arms Act) in the intervening night of 12 December. He was arrested from his house and the countrymade rifle used in the murder was seized from his possession. He confessed to have killed Gohai Murmu on being hired by Som Murmu(22), the nephew of the deceased Gohai Murmu of Narenguri village for Rs 60,000.00 (sixty thousand). Later,police also apprehended Som Murmu from...
MONGOLDOI:A nefarious political conspiracy is behind the recent clash between police and protesters in Dhola where two protestors were killed in police firing. This was more or less of what two ministers said in Dhola a day after the duo were on a stock taking visit to the trouble torn semi urban area in Darrang district. Porimal Suklavaidya and Rihon Daimary who visited the area on Thursday told the reporters that the entire uncident might be a conspiracy for political mileage. "This is what we think. Now we can't disclose anything. The ongoing probe will ascertain the real factors behind the incident," said the ministers after they visited the bereaved family members of the deceased...
MONGOLDOI: Life in the trouble torn Dhola is limping back to normal two days after the semi urban area in Darrang district was put under curfew to defuse tension after two people were killed in police firing as they along with nearly 2000 others clashed with police. The authorities have relaxed the curfew on Thursday afternoon in the absence of any stray incidents. Local residents came out of their homes and most of them thronged the residents of the deceased who were laid to rest amid tight security in the afternoon. Additional chief secretary MGKV Bhanu is initiating probe into thr incident of police firing to disperse a group of irate protesters who alleged custodial death of a local...
KOKRAJHAR: In yet another incident that sends utter shock and anger a son killed his father following a familyclash in Baksa district on Thursday. The incident took place in Jopdong village early in the morning where Bhadredwar Bodo died at the hands of his son Gopal when they had a clash over a family matter. Later Gopal was held to be sent to the jail.
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