MAHANTA CREEPING LIES ON THE SECRET KILLINGS DONE DURING HIS TENURE
The appointment of the one-man KN Saikia panel by the State Government, to probe into the six specific charges of secret killings in Assam, has drawn flak from former Chief Minister and the man in the eye of the storm, Prafulla Kumar Mahanta, under whose tenure at Dispur the secret killings took place.
Mahanta said that this was merely an attempt by the dispensation at Dispur to keep alive the issue to draw political mileage ahead of the forthcoming Assembly polls in the State.
Mahanta, while questioning the motive of the government in constituting the one-man panel, said that under the garb of probe, the government, in fact, was trying to placate a major rebel group in the State.
He also called for a thorough analysis of the motive behind the government’s decision of bringing back the six charges probed by the Justice J N Sharma panel under the jurisdiction of the newly-appointed KN Saikia panel.