Winding up ULFA
| 24 May 2021 5:00 AM GMT
Assam has, in the last few days, seen certain significant developments on the insurgency front. While Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma had, in his maiden press conference immediately after taking oath on May 10 had appealed to Paresh Barua, chief of the proscribed United Liberation Front of Asom - Independent (ULFA-I) chief to give up violence and come to the negotiation table in the interest of restoring permanent peace in the state, Barua too has responded quite positively. Violence, kidnapping, extortion can never solve problems, it only makes things complicated, Sarma had said in his very first press conference as CM, appealing to all militant groups to come to the negotiation table and play a role in restoring peace. Going by the trend of events, it appears that Paresh Barua too was looking for an opportunity to make his intentions heard. Thus, Barua s group kidnapped two employees of a private firm working with the public sect