North East News Agency

Going against the popular wishes, outlawed United Liberation Front (ULFA) has reiterated the demand of sovereignty. At the same time, the outfit had also denied that there was any Track-II negotiation with the Centre. The underground organization insisted that it was ready to discuss only sovereignty with the Centre. “ULFA has not entered into any kind of negotiation with the Government of India. Our only specific pre-condition is that the issue of the restoration of Assam’s sovereignty should be on the agenda for talks,” ULFA chief Paresh Baruah said, in a statement.

ULFA leader said that “in principle, ULFA is ready for a plebiscite and not referendum, under international supervision,” while talking about referendum or plebiscite.

“ULFA called off the ban on celebration of National Games by showing respect to the appeal of legendary sports personalities and sport-loving people of Assam, not because of any love for Indian colonial rulers,” he reiterated.

“However, a section of people have tried to give an impression to the masses that this gesture is ULFA’s weakness. Since the day ULFA banned the National Games the flatterers of India condemned ULFA.

They left no stone unturned to derive public opinion for holding the games by stating it as a great event to uphold Assam’s dignity’’he said, alleging that to make the National Games a great success they “created an awesome situation in Assam attacking Hindi-speaking people and increasing immensely the number of security forces to build up strong anti-ULFA campaign in Assam. The plan to choose Assam as a host for the games is to strengthen the logic that the state is an indispensable part of India.”

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