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Ulfa drops its primary demand of secession from India
GUWAHATI: The United Liberation of Assam (Ulfa) in its charter of demands submitted to home minister P Chidambaram in New Delhi on Friday morning dropped its primary demand of secession from India and instead sought solutions within the constitution.
The Ulfa, however, demanded amendments in the constitution that would ensure greater power to the state.
"We are not seeking secession from India," Ulfa's foreign secretary Sasadhar Chouhury said after the meeting with the home minister. However, a small faction of the outfit led by the outfit's commander-in-chief Paresh Baruah continues to oppose the talks without the sovereignty demand on the agenda and has not joined the on going peace process.
The seven-member delegation of the pro-talk faction led by the outfit's chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa in the charter for negotiation submitted to the centre asked for discussions on 12 broad points: A discussion on "grounds for ULFA's struggle and their genuineness", status report on missing ULFA leaders and cadres, constitutional and political arrangements and reforms, protection of the identity and material resources of the local indigenous population of Assam, financial and economic arrangements, settlement of all royalties on mines/minerals including oil on a retrospective compensatory basis and rights of independent use for a sustainable economic development in future, illegal migration-its effect/impact and required remedies including sealing of international borders, river patrolling, development of a native force to man the borders, ethnic issues-problems and constitutional restructuring including settlement of border disputes and removal of encroachment, education and health-reforms as required to preserve the identity of the people of Assam and benefits, agricultural and rural development, land and natural resources-including right of natives to the land, flood control and management, industrial growth, development of infrastructure, removal of transport bottleneck, development of entrepreneurial skill and efficiency in labour, availability of credit, infusion of capital-leading to industrial take off and right to engage in specific relationship with foreign countries for promotion of mutual trade, commerce and cultural relationship, restoration, protection, preservation and spread of indigenous culture of Assam in all its variety and amnesty, re-integration and rehabilitation of ULFA members and affected people.
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Is it the light at the end of the tunnel for peace in Assam??
GUWAHATI: The United Liberation of Assam (Ulfa) in its charter of demands submitted to home minister P Chidambaram in New Delhi on Friday morning dropped its primary demand of secession from India and instead sought solutions within the constitution.
The Ulfa, however, demanded amendments in the constitution that would ensure greater power to the state.
"We are not seeking secession from India," Ulfa's foreign secretary Sasadhar Chouhury said after the meeting with the home minister. However, a small faction of the outfit led by the outfit's commander-in-chief Paresh Baruah continues to oppose the talks without the sovereignty demand on the agenda and has not joined the on going peace process.
The seven-member delegation of the pro-talk faction led by the outfit's chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa in the charter for negotiation submitted to the centre asked for discussions on 12 broad points: A discussion on "grounds for ULFA's struggle and their genuineness", status report on missing ULFA leaders and cadres, constitutional and political arrangements and reforms, protection of the identity and material resources of the local indigenous population of Assam, financial and economic arrangements, settlement of all royalties on mines/minerals including oil on a retrospective compensatory basis and rights of independent use for a sustainable economic development in future, illegal migration-its effect/impact and required remedies including sealing of international borders, river patrolling, development of a native force to man the borders, ethnic issues-problems and constitutional restructuring including settlement of border disputes and removal of encroachment, education and health-reforms as required to preserve the identity of the people of Assam and benefits, agricultural and rural development, land and natural resources-including right of natives to the land, flood control and management, industrial growth, development of infrastructure, removal of transport bottleneck, development of entrepreneurial skill and efficiency in labour, availability of credit, infusion of capital-leading to industrial take off and right to engage in specific relationship with foreign countries for promotion of mutual trade, commerce and cultural relationship, restoration, protection, preservation and spread of indigenous culture of Assam in all its variety and amnesty, re-integration and rehabilitation of ULFA members and affected people.
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Is it the light at the end of the tunnel for peace in Assam??
