Paswan, who undertook a visit to the worst-hit areas of Upper Assam, said the state government has not started relief work in many camps. He suggested that relief work should be speeded up.
Troops launched an offensive in the Manabhum reserve forests in Arunachal Pradesh to search out United Liberation Front Asom rebels as intensifed army operations against the militant outfit entered the third day on Friday.
Police on Tuesday recovered 30 grenades along with equal number of explosives laden in an auto rickshaw that was coming from Daranga Mela on the India-Bhutan border in Baksa district of Assam to Ghograpar in Nalbari district where some ULFA militants were awaiting the consignment. Police, which intercepted the auto rickshaw midway near Bhutan bus stop at Rangiya in Kamrup district, arrested two suspected ULFA militants.
But the outfit has denied involvement in the ongoing violence against Biharis in Assam.
"There will be no let up in vigil against the banned ULFA (United Liberation Front of Asom) now onwards under any circumstances," vowed Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi
Armed forces have heightened security all over Assam on the eve of the 'Raising Day' of the banned ULFA on Monday. All public vehicles moving on State Highways have been placed under the scanner by security forces while check posts have been set up on the way to all vital installations and VVIP residential areas to prevent possible a strike by the ULFA.
"If they think that by violence they can sabotage holding of the National Games then my government would go to any extent to ensure that the games are staged befitting the dignity and pride of the state of Assam," he said.
Security has been heightened in Assam ahead of the ULFA's Raising Day on March 16. On Thursday, a hardcore ULFA militant, who was wanted in connection with bomb blasts, murder of Hindi-speaking people and extortion, was killed in an encounter with the army.
Suspected militants belonging to the banned United Liberation Front of Asom shot dead three Hindi-speaking workers at a brick kiln in Dibrugarh district of eastern Assam late on Sunday night.
The banned outfit ambushed an army vehicle with a powerful bomb near remote Asomiyagaon village.
Fourteen people were injured, five of them critically, in a bomb blast triggered by suspected United Liberation Front of Asom militants at a market place near Tezpur police station in Assam's Sonitpur district on Wednesday afternoon.
Police also seized the country boat that has been used by the ULFA to ferry explosives and arms to Guwahati from Western Assam areas by dodging strict vigil by the police and the army on all land routes leading to the state's capital city.
The recovery was made after the arrest of Champak Sharma, an ULFA cadre. Immediately after the arrest, the police recovered five kilograms of RDX explosives, a large number of splinters, bomb sealing materials and ammunition of SLR from a rented house near the Army transit camp.
At least two person was killed and 17 others injured when a bomb rigged to a cycle exploded at Alipurduar town in north Bengal on Wednesday.
The ULFA along with three other militant groups from the Northeast including Kamatapur Liberation Organisation, which is active in Western Assam and North Bengal area have called for boycott of "Indian Republic Day celebrations' and a general strike on January 26.
A joint team of police and the army shot dead a sergeant major Madan Koch of the banned United Liberation Front of Asom at Kathalbari in West Garo Hills of Meghalaya on Sunday.
The peace process between the United Liberation Front of Asom and the Centre appears to have hit a roadblock with both sides refusing to back down from their respective stands.
Four hardcore militants from the 709 battalion of the banned United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) surrendered on Thursday before the Army at an Indian Army base at Kamalpur in Kamrup district, about 35 kilometers from Guwahati.
Ceasefire with ULFA extended till Sept 15
Rajkhowa hoped the ULFA's decision would bring about a atmosphere conducive to talks with the government.
Three persons were killed and over 15 injured in two separtae incidents of bomb blasts in Guwahati and Tinsukia in Assam.
Each side is waiting for the other to make the move towards direct talks.
The letter asked the Centre not to approach them directly for any negotiation until the three conditions were met.
In a statement e-mailed to the media, ULFA chairman Arabindo Rajkhowa assured all concerned including agencies responsible for arranging security for the cricket match as well as players that the outfit was not going to do any mischief to disrupt the match as it had 'great respect for sports and sportsmen.'
the security sources said the banned group's leadership had shifted many of its cadre based in eastern Assam areas to its camps inside Myanmar.
The proscribed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) on Sunday belittled the last week's surrender of its 30-odd cadres before the Army and the police, saying such "surrender dramas" enacted by security forces and the government would hardly have any affect on the outfit.
There was no casualty. The police has launched an operation to nab the militants.
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