Click to play videoGuwahati/Patna: The Centre has rushed thousands of troops to Assam against the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) but migrant workers in the state are yet to feel safe.
At the Dibrugarh raliway station, the exodus of migrant workers from the state can clearly be seen. More than 500 Bihari families, which left Upper Assam after the ULFA attacks, waited to take trains home.
Deepak Thakur and his fellow workers had come from Bihar to work on a flyover project two months back. Now they would rather be on a train heading home. “We are scared after the attacks and we are leaving Assam,” said Thakur.
Defence Minister A K Anthony held meetings with senior Army officers in Assam on Tuesday and there is now talk of intensifying military operations on the lines of Operation Rhino.
In Patna, trains brought back hordes of migrant workers back to their homes. The workers say they would rather go hungry than take the risk of being killed by ULFA militants. Not everybody though has been lucky enough to make it back home.
Families in Kaurnauti village of Vaishali district lost four of their relatives.
"My husband went out in search of work. We have two daughters to get married; if he had enough to eat he wouldn’t have left home,” said Manjuliya Devi, whose husband died in Assam.
On its part, the Bihar government is more into blame game than rehabilitating those affected. Chief Minister Nitish Kumar wanted Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil to explain what he had done for the security of Biharis in Assam.
"It is surprising that he has not given a statement though so many days have gone by," said Nitish.
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