Islamic terrorists plan to attack Assam, high alert sounded across state

The Intelligence Bureau warned Assam police about probable terror attacks on several BJP, RSS leaders in Assam by the Islamic terrorist groups.

A top official of Assam police said the IB warned that Islamic terrorist group has planned to attack on BJP, RSS leaders including ministers and panchayat representatives.

The IB also warned Assam police that the terrorist groups have prepared a hit-list of the leaders of the saffron party and the RSS.

“Assam police has taken the matter very seriously and we have alerted all district police to take appropriate measures and review all security angles,” the top police official said.

“We have also ordered to provide security to the security threat persons,” the official said.

The top police official said that, security threat to the leaders saffron party and RSS have been raised following the IB inputs.

Recently, the Union home ministry has provided Z plus security to Assam Chief Minister following security threat.

In last month, the intelligence wing of Border Security Force (BSF) had submitted a report to the Union Home ministry that, over 3400 terrorists of Bangladesh based Jamat-ul-Mujahideen (JMB) and Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (Huji) had entered India in past three years through crossing the international border with Assam, Tripura and West Bengal.

The BSF intelligence wing also revealed that, over 1500 terrorists had entered alone in Assam during the period.

Assam shared 856 km international border with Bangladesh.

(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)