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AGP, BJP want Gogoi to go

By Sushanta Talukdar

TERROR UNVEILED: Jawans check the tourist bus that was burnt in a bomb blast at Gossaigaon, about 263 km southwest of Guwahati, on Friday. One person died on the spot and 19 were seriously injured. — Photo: Ritu Raj Konwar

GUWAHATI, AUG. 27. The opposition Asom Gana Parishad and the State unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party today demanded that the Assam Chief Minister, Tarun Gogoi, resign as "he has lost moral authority to rule the State" due to the "failure" of the Congress Government to check militant violence.

Addressing a press conference here today, the BJP in-charge of northeastern States, V. Satish, while expressing concern over Thursday's serial blasts triggered by the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), said if Mr. Gogoi did not resign on his own his party would demand the imposition of President's rule.

Role of ULFA

Accusing the ULFA of playing into the hands of the ISI, the BJP leader said that Islamic fundamentalist groups such as the Al-Qaeda and the Hizb-ul Mujahideen had taken firm roots in the soil of the Northeastern region in general and Assam in particular. He alleged that their design was to create a greater Islamic state comprising the present Bangladesh, parts of West Bengal, Bihar and Assam along with other Northeastern States.

Mr. Satish said the State BJP would observe August 30 as "anti-terrorism day" to mobilise public opinion against militant violence.

Echoing the concern expressed by Mr. Satish, the AGP general secretary, Chandra Mohan Patowari, and the party spokesman, Jagadish Bhuyan, said Mr. Gogoi should immediately resign as he himself had admitted that law and order in the State was "very bad".

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