NDFB plans to go for 'selective killings'

GUWAHATI, January 16: Spectre of fratricidal clashes looms over Bodo dominated areas of the State with banned National Democratic Front of Boroland (NDFB) resolving to go for 'selective elimination' of leaders of rival Bodo groups including the BLT, ABSU, Bodo Sahitya Sabha (BSS), Bodo People's Action Committee (BPAC) and All Bodo Women's Welfare Federation (ABWWF). The NDFB in a statement issued today stated that the resolution to this effect was taken in a special session of the outfit held in an undisclosed place on January 10 last. It also stated that as soon as the decision would be put into effect 'shoot at sight' orders would be issued against selected leaders of rival outfits. The NDFB stated that it was compelled to take such a decision to neutralise joint efforts of these organisations especially ABSU-BPAC combine, to crush the 'revolution' launched by it way back in 1986 with the aim to liberate the Bodo nation. The NDFB blamed the then ABSU Volunteer Force (now BLT) for first setting off the never-ending fratricidal clashes by killing the first ever self-styled action commander of the NDFB, Bangbur Gwra Basumatary on September 14, 1988. However, the NDFB stated that ideological difference between the NDFB and ABSU-BLT combine had nothing to do with the fratricidal clashes which were part of design of the 'Indian machinery' against Bodo people as a whole. The NDFB alleged that the ABSU-BLT combine after failing to carry on with their struggle for a separate Bodoland State had reduced themselves into mere tools at the hands of Indian machinery. "Unprincipled ABSU-BLT goons cannot finish off a revolutionary organisation like the NDFB, which is based on solid foundation," the NDFB publicity secretary B Erakda stated claiming that the outfit over the years consolidated its base in the entire Bodo dominated areas of the State. The NDFB alleged that the BLT had killed the former president of the People's Democratic Front (PDF), Garlabatha Basumatary in sharp violation of the 'understanding' between the two outfits based on the principle of forget and forgive. The understanding was struck in May, 1999 and was aimed at stopping fratricidal killings among the Bodos. The NDFB stated that it has noted with concern that the BSS, ABSU, BPAC, ABWWF and BLT had joined hands to fight against it. It stated that such 'collaboration' would be of ominous consequences for the Bodo nation as a whole.