Elusive Ulfa chief Paresh Baruah is found to have been mounting pressure on its cadres to strike and demonstrate their power by carrying out grenade attacks on civilians in Assam.
Disclosing that the Ulfa leadership was desperate for generating fund through extortion, authoritative security sources told this newspaper that Ulfa cadres operating in the field are under tremendous pressure from their leadership to send money to their camps in Burma.
Referring intercepts coercing Ulfa cadres to use ‘Aaloo’, security sources said that in their coded parlance, Ulfa describes grenade as ‘Aaloo’.
Indicating that apart from Guwahati, Ulfa was trying to launch grenade attack in Upper Assam’s Tinsukia and Dibrugarh, security sources said that Baruah and assistant general secretary of the outfit Jeevan Moran were making telephone calls to businessmen in the state asking them to contribute funds to their coffers.
Informing that grenade attacks are planned to mount pressure on business community to pay their demands, security sources said that Ulfa cadres have also been asked to kidnap some of the soft targets for extortion.
Security sources said that senior Ulfa leaders Rajib Das, Nayan Medhi, Babul Gogoi and Drishti Rajkhowa are operating from India. These Ulfa leaders were believed to have been operating from Bangladesh, security sources said, adding that security agencies have got some concrete evidence on their presence inside Indian territory.
Claiming that state police forces have been alerted, security sources, however, said that security agencies are wondering over the massive requirement of fund by Ulfa leadership in Burma.
Pointing out that they have inputs on expenditure of the other underground groups holed up in Burma, security sources said that they are yet to know the reasons behind massive expenditure of Ulfa.