Enraged at the renewed threat issued by the United Liberation Front of Asom against the Hindi-speaking populace in the state, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Friday said, "ULFA is building a castle in the air by demanding sovereignty of Assam."
Gogoi asserted that the government would involve indigenous people of the state besides the men in uniform to provide security to lives of Hindi-speaking brothers.
Talking to the media in Guwahati on Friday afternoon, Gogoi said, "Most of the Hindi-speaking people living in Assam have become part of the greater Assamese society. It is our duty to provide protection to them."
He said besides augmenting deployment of security personnel to provide protection to Hindi-speaking people, the government would form local-level peace committees and people's vigilant groups to neutralise ULFA's design against Hindi-speaking people.
Gogoi said the militant group was 'building a castle in the air' by demanding sovereignty which is neither negotiable nor supported by the people of Assam.
"Who has given the ULFA right to issue threat to a particular section of the people in the society ? They are (ULFA) definite not representative of the people of the state. The people of the state don't support ULFA's demand for sovereignty," said the chief minister who heads the unified command structure in the state.
"ULFA is serving interests of forces inimical to the