Guwahati, June 15: Four persons, claiming to be members of the banned Ulfa, today said they were planning to float a new outfit to continue their ?revolution? under the leadership of one self-styled ?Captain? of the outfit.

The rebels declared that they were revolting against the leadership of the banned organisation. The quartet, quoting a letter purportedly written by Ulfa chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa, said the outfit chief was planning to liquidate them. A scanned copy of the letter was forwarded to mediapersons.

They further said several Ulfa leaders, including Bening Rava, Abhijit Deka and Nilu Chakravarty, who the outfit claimed had gone missing after the army?s operations in Bhutan, had actually been killed on Rajkhowa?s orders.

The four persons were identified as Bijoy Kalita of Ulfa?s 28 battalion, Rudra Barua of the 709 battalion, Hemanta Kalita of the 109 battalion and Kamal Ahmed of the outfit?s central publicity wing. They claimed that they learnt about the plot after they got hold of the letter Rajkhowa had written to the outfit?s commander-in-chief Paresh Bar-ua, informing him about the capital punishment awarded to Rava and his comrades and the move to execute them.

The four claimed they had been targeted because they were from Lower Assam and Rajkhowa allegedly did not want anybody from that area to rise in the Ulfa hierarchy.