Dhaka: With the arrest of Arabinda Rajkhowa, Chairman of the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), the government on Wednesday announced that the Ulfa was expected to come forward for talks in the next few days.
Home Minister P Chidambaram said, “Ulfa is in disarray today. In the next few days, I expect the ULFA leadership to make a political statement a positive statement,”
Chidambaram said the government was willing to talk to the ULFA leaders provided “they abjure violence and there is no demand for sovereignty”.
According to sources, Rajkhowa was picked up on Monday from his Dhaka residence. He had been hiding in Bangladesh for over a decade.
Some reports claimed he had not been formally arrested, but would be informally handed over to Indian intelligence agencies at the Gakul Nagar outpost in Tripura on the Indo-Bangla border soon.
