Assam Insurgency
Assam minister appeals ULFA-I to release abducted employees of oil drilling company
Guwahati: Assam Health minister Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma has appealed United Liberation Front of Asom – Independent (ULFA-I) to release two employees of an oil drilling company who were abducted by the banned outfit on Dec 21 last year.
The rebel outfit had abducted Pranab Kumar Gogoi – a drilling superintendent at the Quippo Oil and Gas Infrastructure Limited, and Ram Kumar – a radio operator at the company, from a drilling site near Innao in Arunachal Pradesh’s Changlang district.
On Jan 30, ULFA-I had issued a press release and warned that, the Chief Ministers of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh would be responsible for any untoward fate of the two employees of the oil drilling company.
Pranab Kumar Gogoi is a resident of Assam’s Sivasagar district while Ram Kumar is hailing from Bihar’s Khagaria district and both are now in captive of the rebel outfits.
Appealing to the ULFA-I and its chief Paresh Baruah for releasing the abducted employees of the oil drilling company, Himanta Biswa Sarma said that – “We urge the ULFA-I to release both the employees.”
“They are lower level workers of the company and keeping them hostage nobody will profit. Paresh Baruah should have to hear the appeal of the people and release the abducted employees,” Himanta Biswa Sarma said.
The banned militant group has asked the oil drilling company to take necessary steps to rescue their employees within February 16.
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