Guwahati, July 16: Mamoni Raisom Goswami may have been hasty in inferring that her role as peacemaker was over and she could focus on her main job: writing.

Concerned over the deadlock over the release of five jailed Ulfa leaders, Goswami today decided to take it upon herself to get the peace process back on track. Both Ulfa and the government have adopted a rigid stand, insisting that the initiative to take the process forward.

Chief minister Tarun Gogoi last week said the Ulfa leaders could be released only after the outfit directly communicated its intention to talk peace with the Centre. The government also made it clear in the Assembly that the peace process could go forward only after Ulfa nominated its team of negotiators.

Ulfa chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa responded with a terse message. He said the outfit could take the next step only after his incarcerated comrades were released.

Goswami?s concern stemmed from the fact that the latest stand of the government has once again put a question mark on its sincerity in taking the process forward. The Ulfa-constituted People?s Consultative Group (PCG) today accused the government of going back on the assurance made during the third rounds of talks with it in May.

PCG spokesperson Arup Borbora said the government was coming up with ?ridiculous suggestions? like Ulfa would have to first nominate representatives for peace parleys. He said it was clearly mentioned in the joint statement issued after the third round of meeting that the government would consider favourably the release of the Ulfa leaders and both sides would exercise restraint in their operations.

Goswami told The Telegraph that within a day or two she would meet Union home secretary V.K. Duggal to apprise him of the technical difficulties the outfit was facing to carry forward the peace process in the absence of its jailed senior leaders. ?I can understand that in the absence of a quorum, the outfit?s central executive is unable to take any decision on the peace process. So I will apprise Duggal of this,? she added.

Goswami said she would urge the home secretary to at least consider the release of three senior-most leaders of the outfit like vice-president Pradip Gogoi and ideologue Bhimkanta Buragohain.