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Gandhians appeal to Bodos to release colleague

Twenty Gandhian social workers of the north-east have appealed to Bodo militants to immediately release their senior colleague Dwarika Barua who was abducted from Dhamdhama in Assam's Nalbari district on November 26.

They said that news of the abduction had shocked the Gandhian fraternity since Barua was a crusader for the upliftment of the poor and the downtrodden.

''He has served the people of Assam in a number of different ways, specially in those areas inhabited by the Bodos. Most of all, he founded two Gandhian service organisations, both wedded to the service of the Bodo community,'' one of them said.

The social workers said they could not imagine Barua engaging himself in any undignified or improper act, injurious to any section of the society.

''We fervently hope that his abductors have been motivated by misinformation or misunderstanding,'' the social worker said.

Barua, now 75 years old, has been a victim of two heart attacks in the recent past and has been hospitalised on three different occasions for his heart ailments.

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