Abhizeet Asom
| Abhizeet Bormon | |
|---|---|
| Other names | Abhizeet Asom |
| Citizenship | Indian |
| Organization | ULFA (I) |
| Known for | Chairperson of the ULFA (I) |
| Movement | Sovereignty of Asom (Aai Asom) |
| Opponent(s) | Indian State |
Abhizeet Bormon commonly known by his alias Abhizeet Asom (Assamese: অভিজিত অসম), is the chairperson of the United Liberation Front of Assam (Independent).
In the 1990s, he chaperoned the organisation's leaders in a number of United Nations's (U.N.) convocations at Geneva. He is believed to be the brain behind the undeterred conference at the U.N. subsequent to the Operation All Clear, which was being strongly opposed by the government of India.
Asom had been working as the acting chairman of the United Liberation Front of Assam since Arabinda Rajkhowa's decision to held talks with the government of India, and was later designated as the chairperson of the organisation on 8 August 2012, following the expulsion of Rajkhowa from all the assigned ranks of the ULFA by the organisation. The ULFA stated that Rajkhowa was ousted because of his unresponsive behaviour regarding the three-month ultimatum given by the organisation on 29 April 2012. Earlier, Paresh Baruah, who is leading the "anti-talk faction" of the ULFA, had issued three months deadline to the "pro-talk faction" to "break talks with the government and return to the outfit", depicting the series of discussions held between the "pro-talk faction" of the ULFA and the government of India as "a sell-out by Ulfa chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa and other leaders." The "anti-talk faction" said:
"The ULFA as a whole is very humbly requesting our Chairman to return to lead the organisation breaking free of Indian control within three months of issuance of this call. Otherwise, the vacant Chair will have to be filled by the constitutional process empowered to the office bearers and members of the unbound (anti-talk faction) ULFA at the end of the above deadline."
Baruah says that the "demand for [Assam's] sovereignty does not mean secession" but disapproves parleying with the Indian government unless the ajenda of sovereignty for Assam is addressed. But, Rajkhowa claims that the newly formed central committee of the ULFA is not in accordance with the organisation's constitution and sees himself as the organisation's chairperson, and the Indian government also view the "Rajkhowa faction" as the organisation's sole representative. In November 2012, Dainik Jagran described Asom as the chairperson of the "anti-talk faction" of the organisation. Asom, however, had said:
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