Guwahati: The Army on Thursday resumed full-scale operations against the ULFA in the wake of increasing violence in Assam blamed on the banned group.
"The Army, aided by police and paramilitary forces, has launched a full-scale operation against the ULFA in various parts of Assam," a spokesman of the army's Four Corps based in Tezpur told PTI.
The army spokesman said additional companies of paramilitary forces, including those of the CRPF, had been rushed to "vulnerable areas dominated by the ULFA".
He said the operations, launched in various ULFA- dominated areas of the state, particularly in upper Assam, followed the Centre's directive and Sunday's twin blasts in Guwahati city that killed 14 people.
The decision to launch the operations followed a visit by Union Home Secretary V K Duggal who held a high-level meeting here on Tuesday to review the law and order situation with top army, paramilitary and government officials.
The spokesman said the recent suspension of army operations against the ULFA had helped it to regroup and "engage in stepped up violence in the state".
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