Guwahati:Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday claimed that the Popular Front of India (PFI) was involved in the violence in Darrang district during an eviction drive, stating that some people had collected Rs 28 lakh from the encroacher families assuring them that they would convince the government against eviction.
Two persons, including a 12-year-old boy, were killed and 20 others were injured after a mob clashed with the police during an eviction drive in Assam's Darrang district on Thursday. The Chief Minister said that the state government has prepared a dossier on PFI and sent it to the Centre seeking a total ban on the outfit. "There are detailed intelligence reports that six people, including a college teacher, had collected Rs 28 lakh in the past three months from the landless families, assuring them that they would convince the government not to undertake the eviction drive," Sarma told the media after attending a function here.
"From where did around 10,000 people, armed with sticks and spears, gather and attack the policemen," the Chief Minister asked, adding that when these people failed to prevent the eviction drive, they assembled people and created havoc on Thursday. "We have sufficient details about the PFI and other conspirators and when the judicial inquiry begins, more facts and evidence would emerge," he said. Sarma said that he had earlier promised to the All Assam Minority Students' Union (AAMSU) that all the landless households would be provided six bighas of land.