Guwahati, Nov 17: Assam's insurgent outfits ULFA and NDFB are in league with Bhutan-based Maoists to topple the King of that country for the Royal Bhutan army launching an operation against them, police claimed quoting an arrested Bhutanese Maoist.

Police sources said Bhutan national Tenzing G Zangpo, who was arrested for his alleged role in the October 30 Assam serial blasts, had told interrogators that ULFA and NDFB were angry with the royal Bhutan government for launching the 'Operation All Clear' to remove their camps on its soil in 2003.

The Maoist group was also not happy with Bhutan government evicting Nepalese from southern Bhutan, he said during the interrogation.

Tenzing said the plan for the explosions was hatched between August and September last year with logistic support provided by the NSFB in procurring vehicles for the car bombs and the ULFA supplying the explosives to be assembled in southern Bhutan.

The police sources said quoting 48-year-old Tenzing that ULFA And NDFB were actively supporting the Maoists by supplying them with explosives. In June last year, NDFB had provided them with 50kg of TNT at the Bodo outfit's designated camp in Udalguri in Assam even after it had declared ceasefire in 2005.

The sources said Tenzing, earlier general secretary of the pro-democracy and human rights Druk National Congress of Bhutan, had fled his country in 1991 with his country's currency of Ngultrum (nu) 2.29 lakh after he joined the Maoist organisation.

Bureau Report