RSS behind Asom blast: ULFA
Guwahati, June 14 (UNI): The United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) today accused the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) of engineering yesterday's blast at Hajo, about 50 km from here, which killed two people and injured 45 others. After having denied any hand in the blast at the heart of a market in Hajo, ULFA's 'military spokesperson' Raju Barua said in an emailed statement, ''The blast was carried out by the students wing of the RSS at the behest of Asom Public Works (APW) chief Abhijeet Sarma.'' ''ULFA has off and on apprised the people about the blue print made by the RSS to trigger communal and ethnic division among the Assamese people. For this purpose, the Hindu body has specially trained its activists,'' ULFA spokesperson stated.Slamming the APW, an anti-ULFA organisation campaigning against the outfit in Asom, Mr Barua said the APW has been engaged in a silent anti-Asom war. ULFA also claimed that a rebel Dibjyoti Kalita, who was killed in an encounter with police at Guwahati yesterday, and the three accused arrested by police at Hajo after the blast had no links with the outfit. Two people were killed yesterday when an IED, planted on a bicycle, exploded at the Buldudh market at Hajo at around 1220 hrs when the market was teeming with activities. Over 45 people, including several minors, were injured in the blast which occurred barely ten hours after Guwahati police gunned down a rebel, arrested another and seized a huge cache of arms in separate raids in the city.
