Guwahati: The United Liberation Front of Asom-Independent (ULFA-I) has written an open letter to the pro-Khalistan-backed group, Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) over the recent reports of the group threatening Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma.
The organisation said that they felt the alarm sent to the Chief Minister of Assam by telephone seemed “unfortunate and misunderstood”.
The open letter to the SFJ was issued by the ULFA-I urging them to refrain from issuing “undesired” remarks.
In the letter, the ULFA-I highlighted the generosity and customs of the “Tholgiri” people of Assam, who refrained from any mental or physical harassment of the Sikhs living in Assam and the West-South-East Asia (WeSEA) region in the aftermath of “Operation Bluestar” launched by the occupying forces of the colonial Indian state at the Golden Temple in Amritsar from 1 June to 10 June 1984.
The letter also pointed out that there was no example of a Sikh in Assam or WeSEA being killed or harassed during the “brutal killing of Sikhs in the subsequent period of 31 October 1984 when the late Prime Minister of colonial India, Indira Gandhi, was assassinated by her Sikh bodyguard”.
The proscribed militant organisation emphasized that even though there was a Congress government in both Assam and Delhi at the time, the political leaders of Assam at the time abstained from making negative comments against the freedom-loving Sikhs, and “today is no exception”.
The letter also noted that there is no room for the brutal torture of the eight members of ‘Khalistan and Waris Punjab De’ who were recently brought from distant Punjab and imprisoned in Dibrugarh jail, and the group has not seen any news that is contrary to the customs of the people of Assam.
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The ULFA-I concluded the letter by urging the leaders of Sikhs for Justice to remember the role of the political leaders and people of Assam in that terrible situation of the past and refrain from issuing such undesired remarks.
They also highlighted that the people of Assam know the “history of the Sikhs, love the revolution and understand the essence of the freedom struggle”.