No ‘outsider’ for top post, ULFA(I) warns Oil India

Workers at a burning OIL well, in Baghjan of Assam. File pic

The banned ULFA (Independent) group on Thursday warned Oil India Limited of action if an indigenous person was not named as the next head of the public sector undertaking.

The Public Enterprises Selection Board had on Wednesday recommended the name of Ranjit Rath, currently the head of Mineral Exploration Corporation Ltd, for the position of Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of OIL, under the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas.

In an e-mailed statement to media, ULFA(I) chief Paresh Barua said the group had demanded the appointment of qualified indigenous persons to the post of CMDs in oil companies operating from Assam.

It was among the seven points served by ULFA(I) in a notice to public sector companies in the oil sector in the northeastern state in May last.

The separatist group also urged students and youth organisations as well as people of the state to build up opposition to Rath's selection as the next OIL CMD.

Barua asked the OIL to withdraw the decision taken by the PESB immediately and name a deserving indigenous person for the CMD's post.

If the PSU fails to abide by its directive, the ULFA(I) is ready to take any "necessary action" Barua added.

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