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Even as the Assam Police and NIA have intensified search for more persons in West Bengal and Assam who could be linked to the Jamatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) in the aftermath of the Burdwan blast, Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi on Wednesday told Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi and said the JMB threat to the state was “real and serious.”
“Of late Assam appears to have been targeted by fundamentalist organizations like Al Qaeda. Some operatives having links with Jamatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) were recently arrested in Assam. We feel that the threat is real and serious and such organizations may find support among the misguided and disaffected elements in the state,” Gogoi said in a memorandum he handed over to the PM on Wednesday.
Taking up the problem of militancy and threat from fundamentalist organizations, Gogoi also made a plea to Modi to take up the matter with neighbouring countries at appropriate levels for sharing of intelligence and coordinated action.
“There should be similar mechanism at interstate level for West Bengal and North Eastern States so that issues of jurisdiction do not come in the way of dealing with insurgency and militancy,” he said. It was, therefore, important that more sophisticated measures were taken to check, contain and curb such organizations and their activities through proper intelligence sharing and surveillance, Gogoi said.
The Assam Police had earlier this month arrested six persons from different villages in Barpeta district in connection with the Burdwan blast where two JMB activists were killed. The six persons were arrested after the police found there involvement with the JMB activists related to the Burdwan incident.
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