DELHI: Stating that the
peace agreement
with the
pro-talks faction
of Ulfa has nothing new to offer, opposition parties in Assam on Friday slammed BJP and said the pact is "merely a
political gimmick
" ahead of the
Lok Sabha polls
.
Asking the government to make the agreement with United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) public, opposition leaders stressed that many old points of earlier accords have been "re-written in a different language and tone"."This pact does not look like an agreement between a sovereignty seeking group and the government.
Many of the clauses mentioned in the agreement are just some routine duties of any elected government," leader of the opposition Debabrata Saikia said.
CPI(M) Assam state secretary Suprakash Talukdar demanded the government to make the agreement public as the state's people have the right to know it.
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