The United Liberation Front of Asom, which has decided to bid farewell to arms to settle their issued through dialogue with the central government, has lamented the lack of attention towards the devastation caused by floods in the state.
In a statement, the pro-talks faction of the ULFA said: "The independence India attained 64 years back has virtually no meaning for poor farmers and rural folk in Assam who have been reeling under perennial problem of flood and erosion while the government has miserably failed to mitigate their agony"
"For all those people of Assam who have been robbed off their lives, property, happiness and prosperity by the perennial flood and erosion, the 64-year-long journey of independent India rings hollow in their ears," ULFA central publicity secretary Mithinga Daimary said in the statement.
The outfit said that the flash floods that caused havoc in Dhemaji district of Assam on August 15 left a trail of destruction, rendering thousands hapless people homeless, stood testimony to failure of the government of Independent India to bail out those hapless people from their life agonized by the nature's fury every year.
The outfit further called upon the people from all walks of life in Assam and all organisations to come forward to donate whatever they could in the form of food, clothes and other essential items to the flood-hit in Dhemaji district.