Jorhat, Aug. 15: The Ulfa hoisted its own banner and flag in the Moronigal area of Mariani in Jorhat district today.
The district administration, to counter the Ulfa diktat, asked cinema halls here to screen a matinee show free of cost for students of schools and colleges and district administration officials.

Three cinema halls, Smriti Gopal, Eleye and INOX screened the film Neerja.

Ganesh Bharali, manger of Smriti Gopal said he could not remember the last time that the hall had remained opened on Independence Day.

Strung on two poles, the Ulfa banner was planted at Morongial Pathar under a tree with the words Ulfa Zindabad and Hindi baaxi hoshiyar (Hindi speaking people be careful). The flag with the rising sun was planted on the side of the Assam-Nagaland border road at Morongial, about 28km from Jorhat town bordering Mokokchung district of Nagaland.

“It must have been planted after we had completed our patrol at 4am,” an Assam police constable stationed at the Border Observation Post said.