Click to play videoGuwahati: The detention of United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) Chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa has once again given Assam hope that peace will finally prevail in the state.
ULFA has indulged in violence, terror and bomb blasts for nearly 30 years and with Rajkhowa's arrest by the Bangladeshi security agencies, it seems that the endgame has begun for the terror outfit.
Is Rajkhowa finally giving in and has he run out of options?
Reacting to Rajkhowa's arrest and his desire to engage in peace talks Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said that the picture was not yet very clear.
"I am not in the dark, nor in the clear picture. I am in between," said Gogoi while addressing a press conference in Guwahati on Thursday.
Many in Assam are viewing the statements about Rajkhowa with scepticism even though there is little peoples' support for the ULFA.
For many it is the outfit's Commander-in-Chief Paresh Barua who equals ULFA.
In 1992, journalist Sunil Nath was part of ULFA and present at the talks with the then central government of PV Narasmiha Rao.
"I believe unless Paresh Barua does have to come, but if he doesn't give consent nothing is going to happen," said Nath.
It's been more than a year since the A and C companies of ULFA's 28th battalion moved into designated camps. Now with news of Rajkhowa's coming forward for peace, there are many who live on hope of peace
As the uncertainty continues, Assam waits in hope to rewrite history and end its chapter of violence.
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