The anti-talk faction of the Ulfa demanded disclosure from Prime Minister Narendra Modi about the whereabouts of 26 of their leaders, who have been missing since the Indo-Bhutan joint military operation against the Ulfa in 2003.
Commander-in-chief of the outfit Paresh Baruah alias Paresh Asom said this on Thursday in a statement sent to the media and threatened to target the BJP leaders and all the election campaigns of the saffron party after January 10 next year, if the Prime Minister fails to reveal the whereabouts about the 26 Ulfa leaders.
The Ulfa statement assumes significance as the Prime Minister is scheduled to visit Assam on November 29 to address the All India DGP and IGPs conference. The anti-talk faction of the outfit had also stepped-up its violence ahead of the Modi’s visit and already triggered a blast in Dibrugarh district killing two civilians.
“The Bhutan Government had officially declared that 168 leaders of the Ulfa had been arrested and handed over to the Indian Army during and after the 2003 military operations. The BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) Government was in power in Delhi then and as successor to the same Government, it is the moral responsibility of Narendra Modi to reveal the whereabouts of the 26 missing leaders of the outfit,” Baruah said in the statement.
“We and the family members of the 26 missing leaders must know about their whereabouts. We demand from the Modi Government to openly reveal the whereabouts of those missing Ulfa leaders before January 10, 2015. Otherwise, we will be forced to create armed resistance to all the meetings and programmes including the election campaigns of the BJP in Assam," the statement warned.