ULFA attacks at Tinsukia, CNEISS warns of more deadly attacks if ULFA, PCJSS and Rohingya terror groups' nexus not crippled

New Delhi: The Centre for North East India Security Studies (CNEISS), a security think tank based in New Delhi, which in a press statement 6 March 2026 had warned of impending attacks from the ULFA to disrupt the forthcoming Assam Assembly elections, on Monday (March 23) warned of more deadly attacks if the alliance of the United Liberation Front of Asom (Independent), tribal armed group from the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) region of Bangladesh Parbattya Chattagram Jana Samhati Samiti (PCJSS), the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) and the Rohingya Solidarity Organisation (RSO) is not effectively addressed.

 At around 2.30 am on 22 March 2026, the ULFA attacked the 4th Assam Police Commando Battalion camp at Jagun, Tinsukia with rocket-propelled grenades injuring four Assam Police commandos i.e. Robi Garg, Jimbus Marak, Debasish Bora and Chittaranjan Mili.

“The first major attack on the Assam Police yesterday since 2021 by the ULFA (I) indicates the change of its policies following two day marathon meeting on 9–11 December 2025 at Cox’s Bazaar in Bangladesh among ULFA, PCJSS, ARSA and RSO facilitated by the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI) of Bangladesh and Pakistan’s ISI. More deadly attacks leading up to the elections on 9 April 2026 can be expected if security is not tightened in the State.”- stated Swapan Debbarma of CNEISS.

“Among the newly formed alliance of anti-India forces, the free use of Indian soil by the PCJSS whose President Santu Larma has been serving as the Chairman of the CHT Regional Council for the last 28 years without elections as an asset of the DGFI poses the most serious threat to India’s security. India has failed to assess security threat from the DGFI asset PCJSS and this allowed the PCJSS to reportedly establish 15 camps in India including 10 camps in Mizoram at Tipperghat village, Salmur village, Malsuri village and Nunsuri village under Lunglei district; Borapansury village, Lodisora village, Nakukchhera and Devasora South village of Lawngtlai district Rajivnagar village under Mamit district and five camps in Tripura at Kamalkha (Korollyachari), Mog Para, Sonamura and Garithanahola villages under Dhalai district and Mitingachari village of North Tripura district.” – further stated Mr Debbarma. 

Citing international conspiracy to destabilize India’s North East, the CNEISS stated that the PCJSS has reportedly been supplied a huge cache of modern arms in the last week of February 2026 by the armed groups of Myanmar who were trained by American mercenary Mathew Aaron Van Dyke and Ukrainian nationals who were arrested by India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) on 13 March 2026. The PCJSS managed to transfer these arms from Paletwa, Myanmar to Thekamukh in Mizoram-Bangladesh border through Mizoram.

Earlier on 26 February 2026, the PCJSS representative at Cox’s Bazar, Bidhayak Chakma, reportedly procured 50 sophisticated arms from the Rohingya armed groups for onward transfer to create disturbance in the North East.

In a judgment dated 5 September 2024, the Guwahati High Court described PCJSS as a terrorist organisation in connection with a 2013 arms seizure case in Mizoram, which involved the recovery of 31 AK-47 rifles, a light machine gun, a Browning automatic rifle and large quantities of ammunition. However, the PCJSS continues its business as usual especially in Mizoram and Tripura.