Assam: Under Doctor's Supervision, KLO Chief Jeevan Singha Lodged At BSF Camp In Guwahati

GUWAHATI: Jeevan Singha, the commander-in-chief of the armed insurgent group Kamtapur Liberation Organization, was flown on January 21 from Delhi to Guwahati by a special army aircraft. The KLO leader is currently being held at a BSF camp close to Guwahati.

However, the top five KLO officials, including the group's foreign secretary, are still in Delhi to talk with the Home Department and Central Intelligence Agency on the outline of their demands. Doctors who are keeping an eye on Jeevan Singha's health are closely watching him.

It is important to note that the former residence of KLO leader Tushar Das alias Jeevan Singha, house number 102, North Haldibari in Alipurduar district, still has an active arrest warrant hanging from it.

Singha joined the Kamtapur People's Party (KPP) in 1989 after finishing his education. Later, in 1991, Singha moved away from his house and joined the NSCN-K and ULFA in Nenching Naga-Basti, Myanmar. The KLO leader eventually went back to West Bengal after spending over a month travelling with the groups.

In the Nayabasti region near the Myanmar border in the Mon district of Nagaland, on January 17, the head of the Kamtapur Liberation Organization (KLO), Jeevan Singha, and a few of his supporters made their surrender.

In 2014, when Singha's wife Bharati Das passed away in Nepal and the Bengal administration delivered the body to their home in North Haldibari, Alipurduar after a post-mortem examination, the villagers of Singha's native place were last seen assembling together in this house amid the security cordon of the Bengal police.

Ajay Bhalla, the Union Home Secretary, and Tapan Deka, the Director of the Intelligence Bureau, met with Himanta Biswa Sarma, the Chief Minister of Assam, earlier on January 18 to discuss KLO-related issues. In the Longwa region of the Mon district, security forces accepted the surrender of Jeevan Singha Koch and nine other members of his organisation.

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