Assam: ULFA calls off bandh as PM postpones visit
March 27, 2011 19:12 IST
The anti-talks faction of the banned United Liberation Front of Asom called off its 12-hour Assam bandh after the visit of Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh to the poll-bound state on Monday has been rescheduled.
The publicity in-charge of the banned outfit Arunodoy Dahotia in an e-mail to the media in Guwahati informed that the bandh had been called off since Dr Singh was not visiting the state. The outfit, however, stated that they would be call for a bandh again whenever the PM or any other representative of the Indian government visits the state in the future.
Assam Pradesh Congress Committee sources informed that as per the tentative schedule Dr Singh is expected to visit the state on April 2 for electioneering.
ULFA had called for the bandh saying, "The prime minister who had promised to hold discussion on all the core issues in the interest of resolving the Assam-India conflict has betrayed the people of Assam by creating a rift in the ULFA so that the Indian colonial occupation could continue in Assam."
K Anurag in Guwahati
