Children of top ULFA leader Paresh Baruah can't speak, read or write Assamese and they speak Bengali with East Bengal accent, former Union Home Secretary G K Pillai said today.
Releasing a book 'Rendezvous With Rebels', based on separatist groups of the northeast, he said the irony of this rebel group of Assam is that its top leader's children do not know their mother tongue.
"That is why Paresh Baruah do not allow his children to come to Assam. If they come and speak in Bengali, that day will be the end of his movement," Pillai said.
The book is written by journalist Rajeev Bhattacharyya, who has claimed to have travelled through 800 km treacherous hilly terrain in Myanmar for three months, and interviewed Baruah and Naga rebel leader S S Khaplang besides others.
According to the book, the northeast rebel groups have firmed up plans to set up a government-in-exile sooner than later.
The writer also claimed that ahead of the 'Operation All Clear' in Bhutan in 2003, which eliminated all militant camps in the Himalayan nation, the Royal government had allegedly offered to pay Rs 200 crore to ULFA and provide "assistance in transferring all its cadres to Myanmar".
