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The banned militant organisation today claimed that they were behind both the incidents (Representative Image: PTI)
“The arrogance shown by GP Singh by treating the Assam Police as his ancestral property has hurt the self-respect of the officers/members working in the Assam Police and his arrogance cannot be acceptable,” the letter read
The banned militant group United Liberation of Asom-Independent (ULFA-I) on Sunday claimed responsibility for the two recent grenade blasts in Assam. In a letter, the militant group threatened to carry out further attacks in the state if Assam’s Director General of Police (DGP) GP Singh did not let of his ‘arrogance’.
Assam recently witnessed two grenade attacks. One was on Saturday night at around 7:15 pm, when a blast was heard near the Jaisagar CRPF camp in Sivasagar. Nobody was hurt in the attack. The police, however, stated that they didn’t find anything that indicated that it was a bomb blast.
Similarly, another blast took place on November 22, when two unidentified bike-borne miscreants lobbed a grenade near an army camp in Assam’s Tinsukia district.
The banned militant organisation today claimed that they were behind both the incidents.
Stating the outfit has no enmity or poor feelings towards Assam Police, the ULFA-I in the latter said, “We don’t have any personal animosity with Assam police. They all are sons of our soil. But the recent blasts were to prove to the recent DGP of Assam GP Singh that Assam Police is not personal property. Using and showing them to be his own personal property and power shows how ill-intentioned he is. The previous DGP of Assam BHaskar Jyoti Mahanta never did that.”
“The arrogance shown by GP Singh by treating the Assam Police as his ancestral property has hurt the self-respect of the officers/members working in the Assam Police and his arrogance cannot be acceptable,” the letter read further.
Recently, the Assam DGP has been making active efforts to bring back youth involved in the militancy to the mainstream.
At the beginning of December, four hardcore cadres surrendered in front of police. On the occasion, DGP had addressed the media and said, “This is not surrender of our boys, it is their ghar wapsi or homecoming as you say. The boys go there thinking about something, but soon they realise it is all futile. So, they contact us and come back. The peace talks are also going on, only the signing-in ceremony is left, but we are expecting it to happen soon. The talks are at the final stage.”
The DGP has also been resharing videos of parents of the cadres who have joined ULFA(I) on social media platform X. In the videos, parents can be seen pleading with their children to come back home.
