The anti-talks faction of the United Liberation Front of Asom (Ulfa) has extended support to Anna Hazare’s anti-graft crusade. But it wants the 74-year-old Gandhain and his team to reciprocate for its objective – sovereignty of Assam. The anti-talks group of the outlawed outfit is headed
by its military chief Paresh Barua who is the only top leader at large and opposed to the peace process unless ‘colonial India’ discusses the issue of sovereignty.

Sixty-four years after it declared independence from British India along with Pakistan, the militant National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Isak-Muivah) has slammed former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru for the Naga crisis. "Mahatma Gandhi and Nehru held divergent views on the Naga political problem. While Gandhi believed Nagas had the right to be independent Nehru wanted to crush them by force," said NSCN (I-M) general secretary Thuingaleng Muivah at Camp Hebron, the outfit's peace headquarters near Dimapur, Nagaland's commercial hub 75 km west of capital Kohima.