JORHAT: Ulfa hardliners have intensified their activities in Majuli, Lakhimpur and Tinsukia in the last few days. They are carrying out recruitment and fund collection drives in the said areas by taking shelter in Majuli and the bordering areas with Arunachal Pradesh in Tinsukia.
Security forces have specific inputs on the activities of militants and therefore some additional security measures have been taken up in the upper Assam districts of Jorhat, Sivasagar and Tinsukia.
DIG (Upper Assam) Anurag Tankha said, "Security forces have some intelligence inputs on the activities of Ulfa militants in Majuli, Lakhimpur and Tinsukia districts. So, counter-insurgency operations are being carried out in some locations and security measures have been intensified."
He added, "A group comprising about eight members under the leadership of Rajiv Das is currently staying in some sapori areas of Majuli. They frequently change their hideouts to avoid police. Besides, a big group of Ulfa hardliners have taken shelter in the bordering areas of Arunachal Pradesh in Tinsukia. It is busy with recruitment drives and collection of funds in upper Assam districts. This group generally takes refuge in areas like Sunapur, Mahadevpur and Jagun in the district and carry out their activities,"' he said, adding that all these areas are very remote and the people living there are generally poor.
"These are mainly Moran and Motok community-dominated areas and youths from these places join hands with the Paresh Baruah-led Ulfa faction. But as soon as security forces launch operation, they manage to shift their shelter to Arunachal Pradesh through the porous border of the neghbouring state," he added.
According to sources, Baruah is now focusing on recruitment of new cadres to his faction and has sent some of his cadres to some remote areas in Jorhat, Sivasagar and Tinsukia district with some special assignments on recruitment and funds collection.
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