Guwahati: Two suspected cadres of newly floated United Liberation of Bodoland (ULB) group were killed in an encounter in Assam’s Kokrajhar district on Saturday.
The Assam Police based on intelligence input about the movement of the newly formed group in the Ultapani Reserve Forest area launched an operation in the wee hours of Saturday and tracked down a camp allegedly belonging to the ULB.
On being tracked down by the Assam Police, a heavy exchange of fire took place between the police and the suspected extremists. During the firing between the police and the militants, two suspected cadres of the ULB were reported to have been gunned down.
The deceased have been identified as Jwngsar Mushahary and Janak Kumar Brahma. The police team recovered two pistols, eight rounds of live ammunition, 14 rounds of empty cartridges, eight hand grenades, and other “warlike stores” from the deceased persons while some others lodged in the camp managed to escape from the spot.
The Assam Police said that now an operation to track down the other cadres has been launched.
It may be mentioned that on Friday, a new militant organization was reported to have been formed which is now demanding a separate Bodoland state.
The organization in a statement said that ULB is an arms struggle organization for the creation of a separate state Bodoland.
“We Bodo are indigenous people of Pragjyotishpur or Kamarupa kingdom which is presently known as Assam. But other people have been threatening us on the various sides like in language, cultural, religion, social, economic, political, educational, etc. and it has happened after the end of Bodo kingdom and since then Bodo people have been struggling for a separate Homeland by which we can live in freedom in the world. We Bodos are also want to live with honor and dignity like other communities and people are living”, the statement added.