12-hour Bandh hits normal life in Assam

Assam News · November 9, 2009

The United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) has called for a 12-hour shutdown across Assam on Monday to protest the detention it’s two top leaders. People in Assam responded to the Assam bandh call and shops, businesses and educational institutions remained closed on Monday. Most public and private transport kept off the roads.

On Saturday, ULFA’s Foreign Secretary Sashadhar Choudhury and Finance Secretary Chitraban Hazarika were sent to ten-days police remand by a court in Guwahati. The two top leaders were picked by Bangladeshi agencies from Dhaka last week. As there is no official extradition treaties between Bangladesh and India, Bangladesh pushed back the duo to India through Tripura border. The Border Security Force personnel caught Choudhury and Hazarika from the Indo-Bangla border in Tripura and handed then over to Assam police.

ULFA is a banned outfit, fighting for freedom of Assam, the North-Eastern state of India. The ULFA accuses New Delhi of plundering the region’s mineral and forest resources, neglecting local economy and giving them back nothing in return.

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