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No talks with NDFB (S), NIA to probe Assam attack: Rajnath
Guwahati, Dec 25 (IBNS): Union home Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday ruled out any talks with the Bodo militants and announced that the National Investigation Agency (NIA) will probe the attack on Adivasis of Assam which left 62 of them butchered on Tuesday, triggering an ethnic tension and reprisal killings and police firing claiming more lives as the toll rose to 79.
"No dialogue possible with NDFB faction. We will not hold talks with such rebel groups like NFFB(S) who killed children and women," Singh told media persons here.
"PM Narendra Modi and the Union Government are concerned about terrorism and there will be zero tolerance in dealing with the NDFB (S) militants," he said.
The Union Home Minister also informed that Bhutan and Burma are ready to cooperate with India in tackling these terror outfits.
"The all out operation against the militants will be launched soon. The Union Foreign Affairs minister Sushma Swaraj had already talked with premier of a country of Bhutan and Myanmar and they have assured to cooperate in operation against terrorism, " Singh said.
Rajnath Singh accompanied with MOS Home Kiren Rijiju, Union minister Jewel Oram, Assam CM Tarun Gogoi visited at Biswanath area in Sonitpur district and Kokrajhar district on Thursday and discussed with various organisations, state government officials, district administration to tackle the situation.
"Those who can indulge in such genocide will not be tolerated," said Singh earlier in the day.
The death toll in the spiralling ethnic violence in Assam, where tribal Bodo militant group NDFB-S faction gunned down 62 men, women and children on Tuesday in four coordinated attacks, rose to 79 as two more bodies were recovered from Kokrajhar district on Thursday
Bodo militants launched more attacks in Udalgiri district too.
Rajnath Singh earlier called the killings of innocent women and children by the Bodo militants an act of cowardice.
He had chaired a meeting of senior officers of MHA (Ministry of Home Affairs) and MoD (Defence) to review the situation in Assam.
Singh said the MHA provided additional 50 CAPF companies to Assam for maintaining peace in the state.
The Union Home Minister appealed all sections of society to maintain peace in Kokrajhar and Sonitpur districts of Assam.
Meanwhile, Assam has been put on high alert as the death toll keeps rising.
The NDFB is an armed separatist outfit which seeks to obtain a sovereign Bodoland for the Bodo people in Assam, India. It is designated as a terrorist organization by the Government of India
NDFB-S was formed in Nov 2012, by Myanmar based NDFB's breakaway group's self-styled "army chief" I.K. Songbijit. They have vowed to "liberate Bodoland [where the Bodo tribesmen live in Assam] and Western South East Asia [read entire North East India]" from Indian rule.
Since the formation of NDFB-S by I K Songbijit, this faction has become the most violent insurgent group in Assam, engaging in multiple incidents of killing, abduction and extortion across the BTAD areas.
(With inputs from Hemanta Kumar Nath)
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