Click to play videoNew Delhi: At least 60 people were killed in the serial blasts that ripped through Assam on Thursday.
While intelligence agencies were quick to point the finger of suspicion towards the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA), this new chapter of violence seems to be scripted by someone else, someone more evolved, as the circumstantial evidence shows.
Blast after blast, coordinated, well planned, intended to cause maximum damage, some even using the deadly RDX – this is not exactly ULFA’s style of operations.
Historically, the ULFA has always struck a specific target. But this time around, it was urban terrorism – meant to create random terror – with three back-to-back car bombs followed up by two booby-trapped bombs in the heart of Guwahati.
So who is responsible for Thursday’s terror?
Security forces insist it is ULFA, albeit in a new avatar. They say a new band of ULFA boys have been given advance training from across the border in Bangladesh by Bangladesh's military intelligence, the DGFI.
ULFA's striking capability inside Assam has been severely depleted in the last five years, especially after the Indian army flushed their armed cadres out of hideouts in neighbouring Bhutan.
28th battalion, their much feared strike force has called truce earlier this year and that brought down the level of violence considerably.
ULFA commander in chief Paresh Baruah was told categorically by those who shelter him in Bangladesh to switch over to urban terror.
Historically, ULFA takes a day or two to own up to any attack. On Thursday, they went on a defensive within a few hours, perhaps because this time around, their status has changed in the minds of the very people whom they claim to ideologically represent.
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