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| Sinha against dialogue with ULFA till SFs gain upper hand | | | JAMMU, JANUARY 09
Jammu and Kashmir Governor Lt. Gen(Retd) S.K. Sinha today suggested that talks with United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) should be held only after the barbaric violence unleashed by them is crushed and Security Forces have gained an upper hand.
In an interview to a national news agency, the Governor, who held the gubernatorial assignment in trouble-torn state for six years and has ample experience in countering militancy in Assam, said that instead of preventing illegal migration from Bangladesh, ULFA is now promoting it.
‘The ULFA cannot be trusted. They started their movement ostensibly against the illegal migrants from Bangladesh into Assam and now they have to done a total U-turn. They get shelter in Bangladesh and are acting on the directions of ISI to pursue their game plan of eliminating the presence of ‘Hindi speaking people’ in Assam for accommodating Bangladeshi illegal migrants into the place thus vacated’, he said, adding that ULFA has to be dealt with an iron hand. ‘They betrayed our trust in 1991-92, when we allowed Arvind Rajkhova to go to Bangladesh to bring punish Paresh Barua. He never returned!’ he recalled.
When asked whether he believed that the ULFA represented the people of Assam, General Sinha replied in the negative, stating that the outfit which stood for the cause of Assamese has now turned out to be a gang of criminals.
On preventing illegal migration, the Governor felt that the problem had not been handled with dexterity and checked effectively. He stated that our failure to check the influx of illegal migrants from Bangladesh was the root cause of the problem. He regretted that his recommendations to the President of India in a special report in 1998 on illegal immigrants were not implemented.
As he was not fully aware of the prevailing ground situation in Assam, General Sinha observed that in 2006 operations against ULFA should not have been suspended as its leaders were cornered in a jungle in upper Assam on the basis of the bait held out by them of talks through the Peoples Consultative Group. The dialogue inevitably failed and only allowed ULFA to regroup and launch the present spate of violence.
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