PFI, CFI, some Congmen involved in secretariat attack: Assam Minister

Guwahati: Assam’s finance minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has said that the Popular Front of India (PFI), Campus Front of India (CFI) and president of the Assam Pradesh Youth Congress (APYC) were involved in the attack on the Dispur secretariat on December 11.

The government will seek a CBI probe into the matter, he said. Sarma said an academician, who works with a central government educational institution, was seen instructing the attackers over his mobile phone, to set ablaze Janata Bhawan, the state secretariat in Guwahati.

“The person was heard saying: ‘Go and burn the Janata Bhawan’, said Sarma. “There was a big conspiracy to burn Janata Bhawan. It was a planned attack,” he said.


He said a Congress worker close to an MP put out social media posts asking people to come to Dispur at 9.30 am. “Youth Congress leader Kamrul Islam Choudhury was seen shaking hands at the site of arson near Dispur. We have found the involvement of PFI and CFI in the incident. There was a person who was asking the arsonist to burn the secretariat,” he said.