Truce by ULFA faction alone will not bring peace: Brindaban

Truce by ULFA faction alone will not bring peace: Brindaban

From Our Correspondent SIVASAGAR, June 28 – While welcoming the willingness of a section of ULFA cadres for the ceasefire, AGP president Brindaban Goswami said here on Friday that it will not bring permanent peace to the State. Besides, the AGP does not approve of the coarcive means alleged to have been adopted by the present government.Referring to the on-going Army operations, Goswami said that it is heart rending to see bullet-riddled bodies of Assamese youths in the fields or in streets. Obviously, the security agencies need to be retrained at once. Internecine bloodshed should be avoided at any cost, he appealed and a conducive atmosphere for peace must be created.Goswami categorically denied that DGP was a spent force, rather he said it managed to win support of not less than 31 lakh voters in the last general elections and it will bounce back with rescued vigour in the next Parliamentary elections. He said, he was hopeful of unification of all factions of AGP and likeminded regional parties, but the final outcome of the on-going unification move will depend on the report of the committee instituted for the purpose.Further, the AGP strategy for the next Parliamentary elections will depend on the report of the 11 field committees formed in 11 Parliamentary authorities.The leader of the Opposition came down heavily on the Centre and the Congress party and said that it is the years of misrule by the Congress party that led to wanton exploitation of the State’s resources, inabated influx, ethnic violence and rise of divisive tendencies among the people of the State.He also called upon the election commission to review the election process and check rigging.Brindaban Goswami was in Sivasagar as part of his Upper Assam tour to call on the bereaved family members of former AGP leader Naren Tanti and Nitya Dutta, who died recently. source: assam tribune