ULFA chief warns of attack on ministers

Two days after two companies of its dreaded 28th Battalion split from the outfit and announced a ceasefire...

Two days after two companies of its dreaded 28th Battalion split from the outfit and announced a ceasefire, ULFA armed wing chief Paresh Baruah on Friday issued a veiled threat of targeting ministers in the Gogoi Government.

Baruah, in a statement emailed to the media, accused the Government of trying to engineer a split in the ULFA and said Tarun Gogoi was toeing the same line as that of former chief ministers Hiteswar Saikia and Prafulla Kumar Mahanta.

“Gogoi should recall that our cadres had in the past made several attacks on minister Bhumidhar Barman,” Baruah said. Barman, revenue minister in the Gogoi Government, had survived three attacks during 1992-96 when he was an education minister in the then Congress Government of Hiteswar Saikia.

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The ULFA leader also said that while the outfit had already disbanded the A company of its 28th battalion, it had given an opportunity to the C company members to return to the ULFA fold by accepting their mistake and asking for pardon.

Meanwhile, five persons were injured in an explosion at Haibargaon in Nagaon district of central Assam at around 7:15 PM on Friday. A police official at Nagaon said the blast, suspected to have been an IED, occurred at Teliapatti near the Haibargaon railway station.

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