GUWAHATI: There was no likelihood of the top four leaders of the ULFA coming back to India in the near future, particularly in view of the Assam chief ministers recent announcement that talks on the ULFA issue would not get jeopardized simply because these four did not tum up, highly placed sources Said here.

Lt. General Jameel Mahmood, chief of the four corps, and in charge of operations against ULFA militants, had confirmed at Tezpur that the ULFA commander-in-chief, Paresj Barua was currently taking shelter in Bangladesh. The ULFA leader had recently visited Pakistan, Lt-General Mahmood said,

The Assam government on the other hand is of the information that the other three top bosses of ULFA Chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa, Vice-Chairman Pradip Gogoi and General Secretary Anup Chetta too were in Bangladesh and were drawing up long-term Strategies for reviving the organization,

A recent interview of the commander-in-chief, Paresh Barua, to a vernacular weekly from the Assam capital, even quoted him as saying that future strategies were already finalized in consultations with the other three top leaders Barua, who apparently realized that revolution was “a child play”, admitted that a number to opportunists had sneaked into the outfit, and that it were these elements who finally shook hand with the Assam chief ministerial Started a compromise game, It is beyond doubt that prime Minister, Saikia had succeeded taking the wind out of the ULF/ sails by engineering a split i issue of talks towards the end ¢ March this year, although there no assurance that splinter groups would not spring up in the true as did in Punjab and Kashmir Chetia, who gave this statement after his arrest in Calcutta late year, said Nobis alias Iqbal the man who forged ULFA : strong links with Farooq, Sheikh f chief of the Bangladesh Freedom Party (BFP). A member of a group  held responsible for the assassination of Bangladesh freedom hero sheikh Mujibur pahmun this BFP chief now runs a newspapers called Dainik Milad in Dhaka Khetia in his confession statement said. A lengthy confessional statement of the ULFA General Secretary Anup Chetia AVAILBLE here incidentally said that Munin   Noris chairman of the steering committee constituted on March 31 here.

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