Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, August 02 2010:
Referring to the news report that the Finance Secretary of the UNLF has surrendered to the Government, the proscribed outfit has flatly rejected the report as fabricated and a baseless propaganda of the Assam Rifles PRO.
A press release issued by the outfit's senior publicity officer Ksh Yoiheiba, again referring to the report said that Sarangthem Prem alias Lukhoi s/o Nageswar of Huikap Makha Leikai is not in any way related to the outfit.
The statement pointed out that the Finance Secretary or the Deputy Finance Secretary are all central committee members who have been serving the party for more than 25 years.
Most of the cadres who joined the party in 2005 are still working as privates.
They have not attained the rank of even NCOs, Yoiheiba said.
He also categorically stated that the said Sarangthem Prem alias Lukhoi s/o Nageswar of Huikap Makha Leikai was unknown to the party.
Quoting its own sources, UNLF asserted that security forces pulled up the said Prem alias Lukhoi from his home some days back before forcing him to enact the surrender drama in the role of the outfits Finance Secretary.
Security forces allegedly enacting surrender dramas after pulling up innocent civilians is not a new thing.
Those involved in such dramas and family members should come out before the media with the facts instead of remaining silent otherwise security forces would be only intensifying their atrocities, it added.