New Delhi: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday urged the Centre to protect Biharis in Assam, where the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) has killed 48 mostly Hindi-speaking people in two days.
Assam is on high alert, as the murders of mostly Bihari migrant workers has created concern among Hindi-speaking people. "Such attacks should be condemned by one and all. The Centre should intervene immediately and provide security to the Biharis working in Assam," said Kumar.
District magistrates and superintendents of police in Bihar have been ordered to increase security in trains running to and from Assam to prevent any retaliatory attack.
Kumar sent a team of ministers and police officers to Assam after holding a meeting on the killings in Tinsukia and Dibrugarh districts.
Bihar Road Construction Minister Nand Kishore Yadav, Energy Minister Brijendra Prasad Yadav, Inspector General of Police Anil Sinha and Additional Home Secretary Jitendra Kumar have left for Assam.
Kumar spoke to Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil, Home Secretary V K Duggal and Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi and told them about his concern and demanded security for Biharis in the Northeast state.
Kumar said the families of the murdered Biharis will get Rs 1 lakh each from his government and wanted the Central and Assam governments to compensate them too.
In Guwahati, Gogoi said: “Security forces have been put on high alert across the state after the inhuman attacks on innocent people by militants."
The ULFA murdered some 100 Hindi-speaking people in Assam in 2000 in a series of attacks in order to cleanse the state of non-Assamese migrant workers.
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