ULFA

The migrant workers have always been the soft targets every where . ULFA has always targeted the hapless migrants, who are the so-called outsiders, at regular intervals to score political brownie points. For the ultras, the migrant labourers are the sacrificial lambs at the altar of their armed agitation for a "liberated Asom". Since formation of the sinister organisation ULFA in 1979 more than six thousand innocent people have lost their lives. Most of them are migrants, who lack the basic needs let alone the security.
Successive state governments have proved to be a liability and incapable to extend a modicum of security to the insecure migrants and the ehtnic minorities, despite the fact that the services of the migrants are so crucial for the state and the Asom populace. In fact, these migrants are no threat to the local youth but are only filling the employment vacuum existing there in menial jobs as in the case of all other parts of the country.
Curiously,ULFA has more often than not used the cease-fire time to regroup and strengthen their military resources and regroup their cadre. During every internal security amnesty period, ULFA has mercilessly butchered the innocents demonstrating its terrorists characteristics. The terror presently unleashed by ULFA may be a part of their strategy to extract maximum concessions from the centre which has been very magnanimously soft in its handling the hot potato.
It is high time ULFA has been reigned in for the peace, harmony and development of the state. Already the strife has forced a majority of the entrepreneurs to transplant their industry to the neighbouring states. Just because they could not, the Plantation industry has been continuing in Asom after allegedly paying ransom to the ultras.
Therefore, the centre ought to force ULFA to give up its arm-twisting tactics and turn to the negotiation tables only where a lasting solution to the problem can be ironed out. In the meantime, both the centre and the state have a constitutional and moral duty to ensure the security of the insecure migrants and the ehtnic minorities.