GUWAHATI (India) - A VETERAN leader of an outlawed rebel group in India's restive north-east said on Wednesday the outfit was ready for fresh talks with New Delhi to end a deadly three-decade-old insurgency.
ULFA, one of the biggest rebel armies in tea and oil-rich region of Assam, has been fighting for an independent homeland for ethnic Assamese since 1979.
'We are ready to hold preliminary discussions,' Bhimkanta Buragohain, 75, one of a slew of top jailed leaders of the powerful United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), told reporters after a brief courtroom appearance.
'Everybody should respect the wishes of the people of Assam for peace talks,' Buragohain said.
The ULFA leader's statement came on the same day as PC Haldar, a former director of the Indian Intelligence Bureau, arrived in Assam state's main city of Guwahati to explore possibilities of opening peace talks.
'I am here to prepare the ground for talks,' said Mr Haldar, who was named last week as New Delhi's chief representative for talks with ULFA.
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