JERAIGAON (ASSAM): ULFA (Independent) leader Paresh Barua should return home "with due respect and not without realizing his goals and aspirations for the people of Assam", said his brother Bikul Barua.
Bikul Barua said, "He has a goal, we don't agree with it but he has spent almost 45 years achieving it. We want him to come home but not without achieving the aspirations he has achieved for the people." They should not return empty handed." An interview at the family home here under Dibrugarh Lok Sabha constituency.
Asked about the pro-talks ULFA faction's agreement with the government, the ULFA chief's youngest brother said, "We don't want him to come back with just a rehabilitation package as his earlier comrades did".“The agreement signed is not in the interest of the people of the state and the common people also know that it is for their personal interest. The leaders of the pro-talk faction are facing so much criticism and they are not able to do so. " To present our case before the people and Assamese society”, he claimed.
Thousands of people have lost their lives during the decades-long ULFA issue, but these leaders accepted only one package. The purpose of their so-called movement”, Baruah asked.Bikul Barua said Paresh Barua is "accountable to the people of the state because many people have been killed and something should be given in return for their blood."
A tripartite agreement was signed between the pro-talk ULFA, the Center and the state government in December last year and the group was subsequently dissolved in January.
Paresh Baruah's aspirations for the people of Assam "are different from ours because ULFA leaders had given certain demands to the government. It is the right of the people to make demands and it is the right of the government to consider them", he said while sitting under a framed photograph . Of his elder brother.
He said, “Both sides should adopt a give-and-take approach to arrive at a solution that is in the interest of the people of Assam and not just a package for personal gain.,
"We want dialogue, there should be dialogue and a solution should be found that is long-term and in the best interest of the people and the state," said the teacher at the primary school where the senior Barua studied.
He said, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has taken the initiative for talks since assuming office and has said several times in the media that the path of talks with Paresh Barua is open.
"Our brother has also responded positively, there is peace in the state now and we too are hopeful of a solution," he said.
"However, the peace process should not be rushed and all aspects should be taken into consideration in the interest of the state and its people," Baruah said.
The ULFA(I) chief's primary demand is Assam's 'sovereignty', on which Sarma had said he cannot discuss it as a chief minister has taken the oath of office under the country's Constitution.Barua left home in 1979 when his younger brother was a class 1 student and Barua has fond memories of his elder brother playing football who would take him to many matches played in different parts of Tinsukia and Dibrugarh districts as a railway employee. They went.
He said, “It has been a long time since he left home and since then my parents have died and my elder brother Dinesh Barua was murdered in 1994. We have no contact with them and it is sad. "
Barua's mother Miliki Barua had issued media statements calling for peace and dialogue during her lifetime, but "she died with her unfulfilled wish to see her son (Paresh Barua) again".
He said, “We have suffered a lot of pain and oppression over the years but we have accepted it as a part of our lives.,
The school teacher of Jerai Chokoli Bhoriya Primary School, established in 1940, also conducted a tour of the school where the ULFA (I) chief initially studied and his name still appears in the admission register and his date of birth is April 15, 1957. , and the date of entry is 2 February 1962.
Bikul Barua said, "He has a goal, we don't agree with it but he has spent almost 45 years achieving it. We want him to come home but not without achieving the aspirations he has achieved for the people." They should not return empty handed." An interview at the family home here under Dibrugarh Lok Sabha constituency.
Asked about the pro-talks ULFA faction's agreement with the government, the ULFA chief's youngest brother said, "We don't want him to come back with just a rehabilitation package as his earlier comrades did".“The agreement signed is not in the interest of the people of the state and the common people also know that it is for their personal interest. The leaders of the pro-talk faction are facing so much criticism and they are not able to do so. " To present our case before the people and Assamese society”, he claimed.
Thousands of people have lost their lives during the decades-long ULFA issue, but these leaders accepted only one package. The purpose of their so-called movement”, Baruah asked.Bikul Barua said Paresh Barua is "accountable to the people of the state because many people have been killed and something should be given in return for their blood."
A tripartite agreement was signed between the pro-talk ULFA, the Center and the state government in December last year and the group was subsequently dissolved in January.
Paresh Baruah's aspirations for the people of Assam "are different from ours because ULFA leaders had given certain demands to the government. It is the right of the people to make demands and it is the right of the government to consider them", he said while sitting under a framed photograph . Of his elder brother.
He said, “Both sides should adopt a give-and-take approach to arrive at a solution that is in the interest of the people of Assam and not just a package for personal gain.,
"We want dialogue, there should be dialogue and a solution should be found that is long-term and in the best interest of the people and the state," said the teacher at the primary school where the senior Barua studied.
He said, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has taken the initiative for talks since assuming office and has said several times in the media that the path of talks with Paresh Barua is open.
"Our brother has also responded positively, there is peace in the state now and we too are hopeful of a solution," he said.
"However, the peace process should not be rushed and all aspects should be taken into consideration in the interest of the state and its people," Baruah said.
The ULFA(I) chief's primary demand is Assam's 'sovereignty', on which Sarma had said he cannot discuss it as a chief minister has taken the oath of office under the country's Constitution.Barua left home in 1979 when his younger brother was a class 1 student and Barua has fond memories of his elder brother playing football who would take him to many matches played in different parts of Tinsukia and Dibrugarh districts as a railway employee. They went.
He said, “It has been a long time since he left home and since then my parents have died and my elder brother Dinesh Barua was murdered in 1994. We have no contact with them and it is sad. "
Barua's mother Miliki Barua had issued media statements calling for peace and dialogue during her lifetime, but "she died with her unfulfilled wish to see her son (Paresh Barua) again".
He said, “We have suffered a lot of pain and oppression over the years but we have accepted it as a part of our lives.,
The school teacher of Jerai Chokoli Bhoriya Primary School, established in 1940, also conducted a tour of the school where the ULFA (I) chief initially studied and his name still appears in the admission register and his date of birth is April 15, 1957. , and the date of entry is 2 February 1962.
