KLO issues threat of massive insurgency operations in wake of the forthcoming Diwali festival
Amid fresh insurgency threats from the Kamtapur Liberation Organisation (KLO) and alerts from the central agencies, security has been beefed up at India’s International Borders (IBs) in West Bengal with Nepal, Bhutan, and Bangladesh.
As per information available with the intelligence agencies, the audio statement by Daosar Langham Kochhas been issued somewhere at the International Border in Tripura. The threat message has been specially directed towards the traders and traders’ associations in North Bengal for “denying financial assistance” to the banned underground outfit to spearhead the movement for a separate Kamtapur state.
On Sunday KLO convener Daosar Langham Koch issued a threat issued about massive insurgency operations in the wake of the forthcoming Diwali festival.
At the same time, it also threatened some former KLO associates, who are now in favour of peace talks with the Indian government, of “dire consequences” if they do not refrain from their initiatives on this count.
The police administration has taken up the threat statement seriously considering that events of threat letters to local businessmen in North Bengal demanding hefty ransom amounts by KLO, which virtually became a forgotten chapter, have resurrected in the recent past.
The seriousness of the matter aggravates further amid recent developments wherein the Kamtapur State Demand Committee, an independent committee demanding separate Kamtapur statehood, has sought the immediate beginning of peace talks between the Centre and the banned KLO. The committee has also decided to begin a massive public awareness campaign to highlight the need for the initiation of peace talks.
The committee has demanded that recently surrendered KLO general secretary Kailash Koch, who is currently in judicial custody in West Bengal, should also be involved in the peace talks.
[With Inputs from IANS]
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