ULFA 'chairman' Arabinda Rajkhowa and 'deputy commander-in-chief' Raju Baruah were pushed back to India from Bangladesh and were later arrested by Indian security agencies last year. But Paresh Baruah has been till on the run for several years.
''The morale of the ULFA cadres in the Myanmar camp has not been affected, knowing Paresh Baruah is still around and supporting the cause of the outfit, ULFA 'Sergeant' Ranjeet Nath, who surrendered before the BSF at its frontier headquarters here today, said.
Mr Nath, who hails from Jorhats Ranga Chahi village of Assam, is from ULFAs 28 battalion and was wanted in several cases of killing, extortion and planting explosives on railway tracks in Assam's Golaghat district. He was decamped from ULFAs Myanmar camp with an AK 56 rifle, 140 rounds of ammunition and two magazines.
''There are four camps in Myanmar. Each camp houses four battalions of the ULFA,'' Mr Nath said after his formal surrender before BSFs (Assam-Meghalaya) Frontier IG Prithvi Raj. ''According to intelligence inputs, Paresh Baruah is hiding somewhere along the Myanmar-China border,'' Prithvi Raj said, adding that there has been large exodus of the ULFA cadres from Bangladesh to Myanmar.
The Myanmar junta has assured New Delhi during the recently concluded three-day Home Secretary-level talks between the two countries held at Myanmar capital Nay Pay Taw that it would help arrest the elusive ULFA 'commander-in-chief' and hand over to India.
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