Guwahati: The last rites of the former senior leader of the banned militant outfit ULFA-I, Jibon Moran, who passed away on August 27, will be performed at Kakopathar in the Tinsukia district on Monday.
As per reports, his body was brought from Doom Dooma to his native village at Kakopathar and his last rites will be performed with full religious practices at his native village.
Nearly, thousands of people joined the procession when Moran's body was taken from Doom Dooma to his native village.
Notably, on August 27, Moran passed at the Apollo Hospital in Guwahati due serious health condition that he was suffering from and was undergoing treatment for same at the Apollo Hospital for the last month.
Reportedly, Moran joined the outfit in 1984 and was relieved of his responsibilities and allowed to return home in April last year because of his deteriorating health.
He was the finance secretary of the outfit and was a resident of Uban village at Kakopathar in Assam's Tinsukia district, was known to have supervised the transition of the members of the outfit from Bhutan to Myanmar after the Royal Bhutan Army launched an operation against them in 2003.
He was then made the in-charge of the outfit's camps in Myanmar.
Meanwhile, after his death, ULFA-I released a statement, wherein, they paid tributes to Jibon Moran and remembered him as a member who took forward the group and its ideologies and proactively participated in several of its activities in the South East subcontinent.
The 65-year-old Moran underwent training in Burma after joining the group in 1984. During his four decades of the fight against the Government of India, he witnessed numerous blows to the group, including Operation Bajrang in 1990, Operation All Clear in Bhutan in 2003, the unilateral ceasefire by the ULFA's 28th Battalion (the group's most potent unit), and the crackdown in Bangladesh in 2009.
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