Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, July 31:
The People's united Liberation Front (PULF) has denied any connection with the five individuals who laid down arms before the IGAR (S) during the surrender programme on July 29 at Mantripukhri.
A PULF statement issued by its home Secretary Md Kaji Umar posed that in case the five were actually PULF cadres why were their army Nos not made public, when and under whose command they joined PULF besides suggesting that it would be foolhardy to accept them as PULF cadres without knowing their true antecedents.
The statement also contended that these five were actually individuals with disturbing records such as involvement in theft, gamblers as well as tablet and drug abusers.
However, Kaji Umar conceded that they were lured to pose as PULF cadres and join in the surrender programme through the insistence of Md Ibocha s/o Tomba (Yumkhaibam) of Sora and Md Nurjaman s/o Angou Shah of Sora whom the PULF functionary said were individuals who had been plotting to detect and trade off hidden weapons of the Front.
These two played an important role in maligning image of the PULF by luring the five to pose as its cadres, Umar maintained while maintaining the five as hailing from Sora areas.
Alleging that Indian Army had been indulging in stage managed surrender programmes for the past many years, Kaji Umar said cost of the five weapons would be recovered from families of the five surrenderees at any cost within August 10 .