ULFA(I) kept kidnapped ONGC staff in Myanmar: Assam CM

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday claimed that abducted ONGC employee Ritul Saikia has been “kept somewhere in Myanmar” by the proscribed ULFA (I).

Sarma along with MPS Topon Kumar Gogoi, Kamakhya Prasad Tasa, and Pallab Lochan Das, and local MLA Bhaskar Jyoti Baruah visited Saikia’s home at Titabar in Jorhat district during the day and assured his wife and parents that the government was doing everything possible to secure his release.

“We have assured the parents of Ritul Saikia that the government will do everything possible to get him back. As per information with the Assam Government, Ritul Saikia is in a place somewhere in Myanmar along the Indo-myanmar border,” the chief minister said.the government also has information that Saikia is safe, Sarma said.

Ritul Saikia, along with two other employees of the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited,

Mohini Mohan Gogoi and Alakesh Saikia, were on April 21 kidnapped by suspected militants of the United Liberation Front of Asom (Independent) from the Lakwa oilfield in Sivasagar district along the Assamnagaland border.

Mohini Mohan Gogoi and Alakesh Saikia were rescued by security forces on April 24 after an encounter near the India-myanmar border .“The government is firmly behind his family in these trying times and is doing its best to rescue Saikia at the earliest,” he added.