POLITICS-Empty Talk of Polarisation

Assam. The ULFA has played its cards well; it has, in a swift change of manoeuvre, discovered the infiltrators from Bangladesh to be an integral part of the Assam proletariat. There will henceforth be few qualms felt in Dacca in providing a sumptuous helping hand to the diverse elements, the Bodos not excluding, who would like to detach Assam from India. Even were they to succeed marginally, that would be another feather on the cap of the North Block strategists who thought up Operation Pushback.