New Delhi: Hindi-speaking people in Assam must ignore the United Liberation Front of Asom’s (ULFA) threats, said Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi in Guwahati on Friday.
The banned rebel group on Friday asked Hindi-speakers to leave the state, but Gogoi said the government would provide security to all people.
"It is our promise to give protection to all sections of people. We make it clear to the ULFA that the government of India and Assam will deal firmly with them and discharge our duty. We have intensified Army and police operations against the ULFA,'' he told reporters here.
"Most of the Hindi-speaking people are living in the state for a long time. They are very much a part of the greater Assamese society. It is our duty to give protection to all sections of people living here in Assam," Gogoi said.
"I would like to remind them (ULFA) that Assam is very much an integral part of India. As anybody from Assam can live in any part of India, so is the case with any citizen of any part of India who can come and live here," he said.
"The ULFA has no authority to issue such a threat to anybody and by this threat and killing of 70 Hindi-speaking people it shows whose interests they are serving," he said.
"The ULFA is serving those forces who are innimical to the interest of the country. Welfare of Assam is not the agenda of ULFA. They want Assam to remain backward, its people to be poor and the youth unemployed," PTI quoted Gogoi as saying.
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