The Hindu : Laloo visits Biharis in Fancy Bazaar

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Wednesday, Nov 26, 2003

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Laloo visits Biharis in Fancy Bazaar

By Our Special Correspondent

Photo: Ritu Raj Konwar

Wearing traditional Assamese headgear, the Rashtriya Janata Dal leader, Laloo Prasad Yadav, appeals for calm and amity between Assamese and Biharis while addressing Biharis in Guwahati on Tuesday.

GUWAHATI Nov. 25. Within hours of the former Bihar Chief Minister and Rashtriya Janata Dal leader, Laloo Prasad Yadav's appeal on Monday for peace and brotherhood between the Assamese and the Biharis, militants in Assam killed three more Biharis.

Only this time it was not the ULFA but the NDFB which wielded the gun.

Three Biharis were killed and nine injured in an attack by NDFB men at Sanghala village under Udalguri police station of Darrang district around 8.45 p.m.

Nineteen houses were torched.Five critically injured persons have been admitted to the Guwahati Medical College.

Mr. Yadav was accorded a reception by the Kamrup Chamber of Commerce (KCC) at Fancy Bazaar, the city's main market, today.

The purpose was to instil confidence among the Bihari labour.

Fancy Bazaar controls the wholesale business in the entire northeast and is totally dependent on Bihari labour, who are now panic-stricken.

The Biharis came in large numbers to meet "Lalooji".

The narrow lane in which the KCC office is situated was packed.

Mr. Yadav repeated what he had said yesterday that violence should stop and Biharis and Assamese should live together peacefully.

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