Noted Assamese author and Jnanpith winner Indira Goswami today announced she had withdrawn from the ULFA peace process, citing lack of transparency as the primary reason for doing so.

“I am hurt by the lack of transparency,” she said. The author, however, said she had not quit the process altogether and would be available if required. “I am primarily an author and would like to concentrate fully on creative work. I think I have fulfilled my role as peace facilitator and have succeeded in bringing the government and ULFA closer through the People’s Consultative Group,” she said here today on her arrival from Delhi. “The rest is for the ULFA and New delhi to carry forward through the PCG.”

She said she would remain in Assam for a “few months” and concentrate on a book she had long planned on ULFA and insurgency. “I am not a politician. And as such I feel hurt because of the delay in the peace talks process,” she said.