GUWAHATI, July 10: Even as the state government is trying to trace the whereabouts of social worker and AVARD-NE general secretary Sanjay Ghosh, who was abducted on Friday last, the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) today came out with a formal statement claiming responsibility for the kidnapping and alleging that Ghosh was an Army informer.ULFA ``commander-in-chief'' Paresh Barua told a local daily here that the front was convinced Ghosh's work of a social activist was just a ``disguise'' and that in reality, he was an informer of the Army and the Intelligence agencies. ULFA's statement comes six days after the social activist was whisked away by it from Mekhalagaon on the Majuli island, located on the Brahmaputra river in Upper Assam.``We have proof that Ghosh was helping the Army, and that every Army operation in Majuli was based on information supplied by him,'' Barua told the newspaper in a telephonic interview today. The ULFA chief said Ghosh had also launched an anti-ULFA campaign at the grass-roots level in Majuli, which could not be the job of a ``true'' social worker.``We have nothing against any NGO as far as they work for social upliftment. But Ghosh had crossed limits,'' Barua added.Observers here feel that the ULFA had come out with these serious allegations now only because of the large-scale condemnation of the abduction.
