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This from the Sentinel, today. Of course, given the lack of confidence that some netters place on the Sentinel (at least sometimes:)), this may just be some ravings by some over-zealous reporter. Nevertheless, it is interesting.
The report also casts some doubts on some PCG members as being 'two-timers'. The term 'two-timers' was, I thought reserved for the male of the species, in personal relationships. I guess, the Sentinel meant that some members were 'moles' in American parlance - but then, what wrong with a misplaced phrase here and there? :)
However, it would be interesting to find out if the Sentinel is right after all.
--Ram
Minus 'c-in-c', ULFA ready to shed sovereignty tag? | |
| By a Staff Reporter GUWAHATI, Oct 22: That United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) 'commander-in-chief' Paresh Baruah has been fighting a 'lone battle' for an 'independent Asom', even against the outfit's top hierarchy, came to the fore when the '28th battalion' of the outfit had announced a ceasefire on its own without even waiting for the formal nod from its high command and the outcome of the Centre-People's Consultative Group (PCG) talks that had been going on at that time. The latest organizational and policy position of the ULFA is such that majority of its top leaders, including chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa, have been 'foreseeing' a bleak future of the group's 27-year-old armed struggle for an 'independent Asom.' Realizing well the futility of the armed struggle, this section of ULFA leaders has softened its stand on the very objective of the group's armed movement. Today, they are even ready to accept a Jammu & Kashmir-type status along with constitutional safeguards to the State, and as such they are ready for peace talks with the Centre without any preconditions. The uphill task before them now is making their 'c-in-c' Paresh Baruah realize the futility of their armed struggle for a 'sovereign Asom,' a thing which they themselves think an impossible proposition. All these revelations are from sources who have direct information regarding the day-to-day developments in the ULFA. According to the sources, these 'liberal' ULFA leaders cannot air comments openly about their soft stand for peace talks since that will only expose the division among them. They have, however, been putting constant pressure on their 'c-in-c' to soften his stand so as to ensure the resumption of the peace process with the Centre and make it a success, the sources said. According to the sources, involvement of civilian leaders, who have faith in democracy, had much to do in a number of ULFA leaders softening their stand insofar as peace talks with the Centre are concerned. An amazing revelation that the sources have made is that at least two leaders of the PCG and the PCPIA are 'two-timers'. "They get information of day-to-day developments in the ULFA and pass the information to the Centre, and the recent announcement made by the National Security Council (NSC) that the Centre is ready to soften two of its three conditions for direct peace talks with the ULFA is the outcome of the ULFA's inside information fed to the Government by the two two-timers in the PCG," the sources said. |
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