New Delhi: There have been mass desertions from the Congress party in Assam following a warning by the banned ULFA to Congressmen to quit the party.
Last week, the outfit had threatened to kill Congress party workers and leaders if New Delhi did not stop the military offensive launched against the outfit. The mass resignations began after suspected ULFA militants gunned down a party leader in an attack on Tuesday.
According to reports reaching here, suspected militants attacked Chandra Chatia, the president of a local village unit of the Congress party, near Naharkatia late on Tuesday.
"Ulfa rebels fired Chatia from close range with automatic weapons, killing him on the spot," agency reported quoted local police officials as saying.
Immediately after that killing, there were mass resignations from the party in the Tinsukia and Dibrugarh districts of Upper Assam.
As many as 20 block-level office-bearers resigned from party membership on Wednesday while 19 Congress activists in 13 gaon panchayats under Hapjan, Dholla, Kakopathar and Borhapjan panchayat blocks resigned on Tuesday, Congress sources said.
All office bearers of the Sadiya block Congress, some members of Tinsukia Zilla Parishad, members of Tinsukia district Youth Congress, members of Hapjan Anchalik Parishad and members of the Tea Cell and the Barphapjan Gaon panchayat have faxed their resignations to Assam Pradesh Congress Committee President Bhubaneswar Kalita.
The Congress workers have submitted their resignation citing ULFA threat to their lives and lack of security.
APPC President Bhubaneswar Kalita has, however, denied that Congress workers were leaving the party following threats from the ULFA. He called it a "misinformation campaign".
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