Guwahati, Apr 17: The ULFA has refused to accept the AGP's proposal for a meaningful dialogue between the Centre, Assam and the banned outfit and ridiculed their efforts to initiate a debate on the issue in the state assembly. The outfit in its latest edition of the fortnightly mouthpiece 'Freedom', e-mailed to the local media here today, said the party responsible for the alleged ''secret killings'' of its members and sympathisers could not be believed. AGP legislators Dilip Saikia and Sarbananda Sonowal in a joint resolution during the just concluded budget session of the state assembly had urged the ULFA and the Central and the state governments to start a serious and meaningful tripartite dialogue without any conditions. “The AGP legislators said the problem of insurgency was political in nature and should be solved through meaningful dialogue without using force. However, their voices are totally different from their party policy exercised when they were in power'', the editorial said. The editorial further said that the effort of the AGP for starting an assembly debate on the issue of dialogue is not appreciated by the outfit.

ULFA chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa had said earlier that he and his comrades were ''always ready to resolve the conflict peacefully with the Centre provided their conditions, including sovereignty, are met''.

Bureau Report