Where is all that much touted support? Not in the villages, nor in the cities? ____________________ ** *Anti-ULFA slogans resonate in city 'Paresh Baruahar dalali nasaliba' *By a Staff Reporter GUWAHATI, May 30: Anti-ULFA slogans resonated in the air in the city today when hundreds of people responded to the call of a number of senior journalists and writers, and took to the streets with a protest march followed by a rally. The Bharatiya Janata Yuba Morcha (BJYM), on the other hand, took out a separate procession and staged a dharna near the Dighalipukhuri in the city demanding immediate imposition of President's Rule in the State for the failure of the State Government to tackle the activities of the ISI and other Islamic fundamentalists in the State. Responding to the call of as many as 14 senior journalists and writers like Dhirendranath Chakravarty, Ranen Kumar Goswami, Rupam Baruah, Nirupama Borgohain and others, over 100 activists of various organizations like the Athgaon Binapani Samiti, Brihattar Athgaon Rajohuwa Samiti, the Assam Public Works (APW) etc took to the streets from the Guwahati Press Club (GPC) to the office of the Deputy Commissioner and returned to the GPC where they held a rally. *Slogans like aah oi aah, ulai aah; khed oi khed; ULFA khed (come and drive the ULFA away), ISI hoshiyar (ISI, be careful), PCGik eghoria kar (outcast the PCG from the society), Paresh Baruahar dalali nasaliba* (broker Paresh Baruah's policy won't be allowed), Dhakar adesh aami naamaanu (we won't obey Dhaka's diktat) etc rocked the thoroughfares of the city from the GPC to the DC office and back when the processionists began to shout slogans against the killing in the city and the State by the ULFA. Speaking at the rally later, Ranen Kumar Goswami said: "We don't want an independent Asom as demanded by the ULFA, and we will never accept the diktat of Dhaka or Islamabad. The ULFA should stop killing in the State or else the people of the State won't remain mute spectators". Meanwhile, there was a hot altercation between BJYM president Dilip Saikia and district Magistrate CK Bhuyan on the permission for the procession taken by the BJYM against the State Government's failure to bring the law-and-order situation under its control. The BJYM leader said that the Centre should immediately impose President's Rule in the State for the State Government's failure to tackle the activities of the ISI and other Islamic fundamentalists in the State. The BJYM staged a dharna near the Dighalipukhuri in support of its demands.
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