Guwahati, Aug 2 NNN: A new Muslim militant outfit has been floated in Assam with its agenda to have a separate administrative area for the Muslims in Assam consisting of 13 districts with four in Bodo Territorial Council (BTC), a well placed source informed in Guwahati on Wednesday.
This outfit is suspected by the intelligence officials of involving in the present ethnic clashes between the Bodos and the Muslims.However, it is still a blame game now among the organisations and political parties in Assam in connection with the communal clashes in Assam’s Kokrajhar district.
But the police intelligence suspected that a newly floated Muslim militant outfit could be behind the ethnic escalation.
Over 60 people have been killed and nearly 5 lakh people are affected by the clashes in western Assam’s Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC).
Reports have it that intelligence officials suspected the United Muslim National Army (UMNA) for inciting the clash.
A Bodo organisation formed by former militants too claimed that the UMNA had planned the violence.
Police in Bodo Territorial Council (BTC) said the United Muslim National Army UMNA was formed on June 15 in an aim to push for a separate administrative area for Muslims comprising 13 districts of Assam that includes four under BTC.
Janomohan Muchahary who is the secretary of All Ex-Bodo Territorial Liberation Tigers Welfare Society said that the violent incidents began on July 19 when miscreants fired at two persons at Magurmari in Kokrajhar district. One of the injured was Mohibur Islam, the chairman of UMNA.
The former BLT leader said Mohibur Islam was a known anti-social element who was discharged from the local police force. Muchahary then alleged Mohibur led 25 motorcycle-borne UMLA members who attacked Bodos on the following day to incite the communal clashes.However, the All Assam Minority Students’ Union blamed the BTC chief executive member Hagrama Mohilary instead for the clashes.
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