Guwahati: With soaring hopes of an end to 27 years of insurgency in Assam, United Liberation Front of Asom's representative team is in New Delhi to begin the peace process with the central Government.
The 11 members Peoples Consultative Group (PCG), formed by the ULFA will also meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi will attend the talks on Wednesday at the Prime Minister's office.
"The process will begin with Prime Ministerial level talk. It has been upgraded so that the Chief Minister can also be there. After that the main round of talks will take place with National Security Advisor (NSA) MK Naryananan", said Ajit Bhuyan, a key member of the PCG.
"We are not ULFA cadres but members of the civil society. Our main endeavour is to bring the outfit into the negotiation table for the sake of bringing peace in Assam", said PCG member.
ULFA, established in 1979 with the self-professed aim of establishing a sovereign Assam, has shown interest in peace talks for the first time.
For the talks, ULFA formed the PCG, comprising of editors, lawyers and entrepreneurs who have been sympathetic to their cause and want to act as a catalytic team to further the peace process.
The first round of talks will focus on the line of communication for the peace process and specifically take the first step towards formulating the ground rules for the peace process.
"We will try to remove everything that comes as a hurdle to direct talks between the Government and the ULFA", said another member of the group Haidar Hussain, editor of Assamese daily Asomiya Pratidin.
The PCG members, conscious of soaring expectations in Assam, said that they were just representatives of the civil society and an immediate solution to the two decade old problem should not be expected.
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