Former ULFA Cadre Hopeful About Peace Talks

Barpeta (Assam), Jan 17 : Former ULFA cadre are hopeful about unconditional peace talks between the banned underground outfit and government and that too without the participation of its absconding "commander-in-chief" Paresh Barua.

"We are hopeful about the talks without any condition.

The peace talks are possible without Paresh Barua," Prakton ULFA Samannayrakshi Somity (Former ULFA Cadre Protection Committee) general secretary Rajen Medhi said.

"Peace in Assam is needed at any cost without any condition during the parleys with ULFA," Medhi said to reporters after the organisation's central committee general meeting here.

The organisation's working president Dhanajoy Rabha also demanded that "all the police cases registered against the former insurgents be dismissed".

Rabha further demanded that "the former extremists be given employment as the government had failed to rehabilitate them after their surrender forcing them to lead a miserable life".