Formation United Liberation Front of Asom(ULFA) was formed by Bhimakanta Buragohain, Rajiv Rajkonwar alias Arabinda Rajkhowa, Golap Baruah alias Anup Chetia, Samiran Gogoi alias Pradip Gogoi, Bhadreshwar Gohain and Paresh Baruah at the Rang Ghar in Sibsagar on April 7, 1979 with the aim of establishing a “sovereign socialist Assam” through an armed struggle. ULFA is a well structured organization clearly partitioned into two wings, political and military. Activities It initiated major violent and destructive activities in 1990. Following which Indian government declared it a militant group from Assam among many other North-East Indian militant groups and military operation started against it in 1990. The Government of India accuses ULFA waging a proxy war on the behalf of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) of Pakistan and DGFI of Bangladesh against India. ULFA collects funds by smuggling, extortion of businessmen, bureaucrats and politicians and bank robberies. It has close relations with other separatist organizations like NDFB, KLO and NSCA (Kaplang).There is no doubt that ULFA is fighting a war on behalf of the ISI and does what the ISI wants. US state department has listed it under “Other groups of concern”. Cease-Fire 12 commanders of the ULFA’s deadliest squad, the 28th battalion has declared cease-fire and called for an end to their 30-year rebellion. But it is unclear whether the cease-fire signaled a possible end to the fighting or merely an internal split in rebel leadership. ULFA’s peace move has been welcomed by the Government of India. But analysts say that peace talks should be held with the entire ULFA as a group, not with some factional leaders. They say lasting peace was unlikely to return to Assam, a state of 26 million people, until peace talks are held with the entire ULFA leadership.
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Nuclear Deal and Dramatic Turns
July 11th, 2008 
Aman Drama For last one month political developments in India have aroused everyone’s curiosity to know what happens next. Every thing has happened like a sensational Hindi movie with dramatic turns. UPA has collapsed because of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s obsession to go ahead with the Indo-US n-deal and the Left parties’ determination to stop it at any cost. PM’s statement in the mid air while going to attend G-8 summit in Japan, Left’s decision of withdrawing the support to the UPA government and government’s signal to the IAEA Board of Governors to go ahead, are the twists and the turns that are similar to a well knit plot of some drama. Dramatic Turns Throughout whole of the political crisis PM has been presented as a hero struggling for a noble cause and the other as villains. But government’s signal to the IAEA Board of Governors to go ahead with the deal even without proving its majority in the Lok Sabha is the cause of concern. Only a day ahead Pranab Mukherjee had assured the Left that the government will go ahead with the n-deal only after proving its majority in the Lok Sabha but in the midnight’s dark IAEA has been given the green signal. This is second time that the PM has done the opposite what Pranab Mukherjee had said. Horse-Trading Government’s haste with the n-deal and the Smajwadi Party’s dramatic decision of supporting the ‘divorced’ Congress government are the clear indications of the wrong motifs. Except it Left was not shown the IAEA draft instead of its repeated efforts and on the other hand it dramatically had become available on some US sites. And now government is going to prove its majority when even its new ally SP is not sure about the stand of its own MPs. Congress is in hunt of MPs and have lured many small parties. It clearly indicates horse-trading. Draft The draft India has submitted to IAEA is in itself ambiguous as some of its key clauses may raise questions. One clause of the draft that has raised questions is that India “may take corrective measures to ensure uninterrupted operation of its civilian nuclear reactors in the event of disruption of foreign fuel supplies.” But has not been clearly stated what these “corrective measures’” will be. Then there is Hyde act that is being seen as the threat to nation’s sovereignty. There is [...]
