Former home secretary G.K. Pillai here on Monday said that wife and children of elusive Ulfa chief Paresh Baruah are keen to come back to Assam, but Baruah was stopping them from coming.
Disclosing that Baruah may try to scuttle the ongoing peace-process with pro-talk Ulfa, former home secretary however told reporters that fate of peace-process depends on people of Assam.
Mr Pillai, who was here to attend a seminar on “Sustaining Peace in Northeast India: Changing Dimensions”, asserted that Baruah has lost a lot of support in the state and even his wife and children, who are in Bangladesh currently, are willing to come back.
Pointing out that elusive Ulfa chief doesn’t want them to return, Mr Pillai revealed that his son doesn’t know Assamese. “It is on people of the state to decide that Paresh Baruah who claims to have been fighting for independent Assam but his son can’t speak Assamese,” he said, adding that “you can make out where loyalties of these rebel leaders lie.”
Mr Pillai, who had been dealing with Northeast insurgency very closely, also pointed out that insurgency related violence is on the decline in the north-eastern states barring Meghalaya, which has seen a sudden spate in violent activities by militants.