In a major breakthrough within the northeast’s insurgency downside, the Centre signed a peace accord with the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) on Friday. The pro-talks faction of the rebel group signed the deal with the Centre and Assam government within the presence of Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and Union Home Minister Amit Shah. The tripartite Memorandum of Settlement pact was signed after the militant group agreed to surrender violence and be part of the mainstream.Â
Tripartite peace accord comes after 12 years of negotiations
According to officers, the event got here after 12 years of unconditional negotiations between the ULFA faction led by Arabinda Rajkhowa and the government. The peace pact is more likely to finish decades-old insurgency in Assam. The settlement, nevertheless, doesn’t embody the hardline faction of the ULFA headed by Paresh Baruah. It is believed that Baruah is residing someplace alongside the China-Myanmar border.Â
Why ULFA was fashioned?Â
It needs to be famous right here that the ULFA was fashioned in 1979 with the demand for a “sovereign Assam”. Since then, it has been concerned in subversive actions that led to the central government declaring it a banned outfit in 1990. The Rajkhowa faction joined peace talks with the government on September 3, 2011, after an settlement for Suspension of Operations (SoO) was signed between it and central and state governments.
