In what may be an encouraging input for security forces, the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (Independent) is reeling under acute financial crunch, which is forcing them to suspend the payment of hostel fees and expenses for the children and family members of Ulfa cadres.
The Ulfa commanders, holed up in Myanmar, are not taking the calls of their family members, asking them for hostel fees for children lodged in various hostels in Assam and Nagaland, security sources told this newspaper. Sources said a large number of family members of the cadres are living in Nagaland to carry out their children’s education. Though agencies don’t have specific input on its fallout on education of children, sources did not rule out the chances of many children discontinuing their studies.
Pointing out that Ulfa chief Paresh Baruah was maintaining a low profile, security sources said the Ulfa central committee had been sending a fixed stipend for the family members of cadres but for the past few months it had been stopped. Informing that the forces have succeeded in choking the fund flow to the outfit to a large extent, sources said there have been desperate attempt to mobilise resources from various channels.
