The ULFA pro-talk faction chief Arabinda Rajkhowa has said that it is the responsibility of the Tripura government to rehabilitate the surrendered militants otherwise there are chances that they would return to jungle.
In an oblique reference to alleged cases of pending rehabilitation of surrendered insurgents in Tripura, Rajkhowa said that the government has the responsibility to rehabilitate them.
"Government has responsibility to rehabilitate them. Otherwise what they will do? They will go back again. To stop them to go back again to the jungle, it is needed to rehabilitate them," he told reporters at the Agartala Airport here Friday evening.
The United Front of Asom (ULFA) pro-talk faction chairman had come to Tripura to attend the Tring festival in Khowai district on Friday night.
He also said that he had come to join his "brothers and sisters"
Rajkhowa said "I have got brothers and sisters here. We were together in bad days and good days alike. They are like my own people. It is like coming to my own home and among my own people."
The previous Left Front government in Tripura had announced a rehabilitation package for surrendered militants as the state faced insurgency problem for around three decades from early 1980s. As per the package the surrendered militants would get a sum of Rs 1.5 lakh at the time of surrender, vocational training for 36 months and stipend of Rs 2000 per month during the training period.
Meanwhile, former National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) insurgent and TUIPC secretary Suran Debbarma claimed that over 1,700 surrendered militants in the state are living without their assured rehabilitation package.
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