ULFA: Won’t seek dialogue by touching Govt’s feet

A day after Union Home Minister P Chidambaram made it clear in Parliament that the government would neither ease pressure on nor talk with the outlawed United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) unless they gave up violence,the outfit’s chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa has said he would not seek a dialogue by “touching the feet” of the government.

“The ULFA’s stand is clear — we are not seeking a dialogue by touching the feet of the government. Nor are we trying to save our lives by asking for a dialogue. It is possible to bring about a political solution to the conflict even without sitting for talks,” said Rajkhowa,in a statement issued in Assamese and e-mailed to newspaper offices here on Wednesday.

On the Home Minister’s statement that the government would consider holding talks only after the ULFA gave up violence and the demand for sovereignty,Rajkhowa said,“Those who want a military solution to the conflict have a colonial mindset. Chidambaram has strongly established the fact that a section of the rulers of democratic India have a colonial mindset. And they are the ones who had caused the Nalbari blasts.”