GUWAIATI: A full-fledged general council meeting of the United Liberation Front of Asom ULFA was finally held after a gap of more than one, and was attended by all the leaders including the chairman, general secretary and the commander-in-chief of the outfit, delayed courts here.

Reports said the much-awaited meeting was held somewhere inside adjoining Assam’s strict on July 22 & 23, was resided by its chairman Abhinda Rajkhowa and it resolved continue the struggle for raining an “independent state” with changed strategies.

The meeting, which discussed at length the latest situation following the Surender of more than 3,000 activist including former central spokesman Siddharthia Phukan and foreign secretary Kalpajyotl on March this year, is under to have decided not to join initiative taken by the Chief Minister, Hiteshsar Saka, The surrenders in the meantime were declared as “counter revolutionaries by the council, it was learnt.

Reports said the most important participant of the general council meeting was commander-in-chief, Paresh Barua, who according to the government was mostly in Pakistan and Bangladesh during the past one year, Barua’s presence in the meeting also dispelled doubts that serious differences of opinion had cropped up between him and chairman, Fajkhowa on the issue of peaceful negotiations sources pointed out.

One report said the theme of the general council was “to keep alive, by all possible means, an uncompromising struggle against the Indian state for a determined goal of social change.” The meeting also declared that there was no practical solution to the problems of Assam within the provisions of the Constitution of India and that an armed struggle was the only “viable” way, it was learnt, A recent joint statement of leaders of the Indo-Jumra Revolutionary Front (IBRI), also figured in the ULFA general council meeting recently  are the Assam outfit understandably endorsed the IBRF resolution of continuing the armed Struggle involving various ethnicities of the region.

 

Article extracted from this publication >> Aug 14, 1992