Assam's Chief Minister Reacts To ULFA (I) Death Sentence, Claiming That The State Doesn't Need Such Bloodshed

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• May 7, 2022 | Sourav Boruah

Digital Desk: Assam Chief Minister
Himanta Biswa Sarma has responded to news that the banned United Liberation
Front of Asom-Independent (ULFA-I) executed two teenagers from the state for
allegedly being police "spies" by saying that the state's people do
not require such a slaughter. He also stated that people who have joined the
violent group have a bleak future.

The Assam Chief Minister went on to
remark that the state must now focus on progress, development, and peace. If
the claims are genuine and such an execution occurred, he has criticised the
occurrence, calling it regrettable and unnecessary. He has asked the ULFA (I)
to join the peace process and come forward.

The chief minister, on the other
hand, remained mum on whether ULFA (Ioperations )'s will have an impact on the
ongoing peace process with the organisation and its pro-talk faction.
Meanwhile, the ULFA (I) said on May 7 that Dhanjit Das and Sanjib Sarma had
been sentenced to death after being found guilty of being'spies' for the Assam
Police.

The insurgent group also posted
videos of the two pleading with state youths not to follow in their footsteps.

Last
month, the outlawed outfit published a video in which Sanjib admitted to being
installed as a spy by a high Assam Police official and a senior Indian Army
official in order to obtain important intelligence. "I was taught and
dispatched to ULFA by Joint Police Commissioner Partha Sarathi Mahanta and army
official Dhunumoni Saikia. I was assigned the task of gathering information on
the outfit's camp as well as the approach to the camp. According to the senior
police officer and army official, I would be paid Rs. 1 crore for acquiring the
information "In a video message, Sanjib claimed.