The Paresh Baruah factor
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The Paresh Baruah factor
Assam has suffered a lot due to the ongoing movement on ‘sovereignty’ by United Liberation Front of Asom 
(ULFA), for the last three decades. Thousands of innocent people including women, children, aged and media persons have been killed during this period by the outfit’s activists and the security forces due to this conflict. The state has been pushed backward and no development activities could be undertaken by the state government. The funds allotted by the Central Government to the state for development, were ‘misused’ by the state to ‘buy peace’ for the ministers, VIPs and the bureaucrats. Several efforts were initiated by eminent persons, organizations and intellectuals to bring the outfit to the negotiation table for amicable settlement of the disputes, but all in vain. The militant leaders, sitting outside the country were ‘getting easy money’ through their cadre who were spread throughout the interior places of the state.
