New Delhi, July 10: The Centre today warned that it will not entertain any ceasefire offer from militants and asked insurgent groups in the North Cachar hills areas of Assam to lay down arms and come for talks.
“We made it very clear that we will not entertain any ceasefire from militant groups. Militant groups are most welcome to abjure the path of violence, lay down arms and come for talks,” Home Minister P Chidambaram said in the Rajya Sabha in response to a Calling Attention Notice on ethnic violence in the hills district of Assam.
Referring to one of the militant outfits, Dima Halam Daogah (Joel group) offering ceasefire, he said “militant groups cannot offer ceasefire to a sovereign country… First abjure the path of violence, then we will talk”.
–PTI