Army operation on ULFA will be successful: Chief

New Delhi, Jan 15: Days after the Army launched an operation to crackdown on the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), Army chief Gen J J Singh today expressed confidence that the operation against the banned outfit, which has killed about 70 Hindi-speaking people in Asom, will be successful.

''The Army has launched an operation against ULFA.... We are confident that we will achieve our goal,'' the Chief of Army Staff said in his address, after reviewing an impressive parade on the 59th Sena divas at parade ground here.

The army had intensified search operations across the state as well as neighbouring Meghalaya and Arunachal Pradesh after the ULFA's carnage in the state early this month.

ULFA has threatened that it would not hesitate to train its gun on workers and leaders of the ruling Congress in the state in case Asomese youth were killed by the Army.

The General also asked the jawans to take a pledge to be always in preparedness for maintaining the unity and integrity of the nation.

Among those present were Air Chief Marshal S P Tyagi, Naval chief Adm Sureesh Mehta and Marshal of the Indian Air Force Arjan Singh.

The parade saw the might of the Army with the display of T-72 tanks, Bofors guns, Pinaka rocket launcher, Reporter radars, mobile base transceiver, mobile decontamination station and the indigenous PMS bridge vehicle.

UNI

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