GUWAHATI, Dec 16: AGP vice-president Rupam Kakati, joint secretary Manoj Saikia and publicity secretary Moidul Islam Bora today dared the State Government to hand over inquiry into the confessional statements of the arrested ULFA leaders and former North Cachar Hills Autonomous Council (NCHAC) Chief Executive Member (CEM) Mohet Hojai to a neutral agency. “If the State Government makes such a move, the cat will be out the bag — the inquiry will expose the three ministers who, according to former Chief Minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta, were involved in the pay-off to militants.”
Reacting to Assam Govenrment spokesman Himanta Biswa Sarma’s statement before the media yesterday, the three AGP leaders wanted to know as to why the State Government is afraid of ordering inquiries into all the killing cases in the State since 1991.
Coming down heavily on Sarma, the AGP leaders said: “Let Himanta explain as to why the State Government sought cooperation from the ULFA by publishing an advertisement in a section of media for peaceful holding of the National Games in the State, and why the Assam Cricket Association (ACA), of which a minister of the State is president, sought cooperation from the ULFA in holding a one-day international (ODI) in Guwahati.”
On Sarma’s comment that Mahanta has lowered the dignity of a former chief minister of the State, the AGP leaders said: “It’s not Mahanta, but present Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi who has lowered the dignity of the post he is holding by saying one thing in the morning and another in the evening.”
Reacting to Gogoi’s earlier claim and Sarma’s claim yesterday that the Congress would continue to do politics on the issue of “secret killings”, the AGP leaders said: “Now it has become quite clear that the Congress is only doing politics on the so-called secret killings. The ruling party is not at all interested to solve the problems related to such killings, but its only interest is to get maximum political mileage out of the so-called secret killings.”
Pointing out the failure of the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) in the State, the AGP leaders said Sarma is now out to make issues out of non-issues only to divert the attention of the people from the failure of the State Health Department. THE SENTINEL
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