New Delhi: In a bid to re-organise themselves after being dislodged from their camps in Bhutan, top United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) leaders are said to have held a meeting in Dhaka earlier this month to take stock of their strength and restore the morale of their cadres.

The meeting, held on March 4 at the house of a "prominent personality" in Gulshan-II area of the Bangladesh capital, was attended by ULFA commander-in-chief Paresh Barua and top leader Raju Barua, official sources said.

At the meeting, the ULFA leaders are understood to have decided on plans to regroup their cadres scattered after the Royal Bhutan Army onslaught, they said quoting intelligence reports.

The outfit suffered a major debacle in mid-December last year after the Bhutanese Army destroyed at least 30 camps of ULFA, Kamtapur Liberation Organisation (KLO) and National Democratic Front (NDF) of Bodoland inside the territory of the Himalayan Kingdom.

The meeting came in the backdrop of "serious differences" between ULFA chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa and Paresh Barua with the former questioning the ability of ULFA's armed wing to resist the Bhutanese Army assault and Barua, highlighting "political shortcomings" as being responsible for the debacle, the sources said.

In his recent 'Sainik Day' speech, Barua, now learnt to be based in a Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) camp in the Srimangal area, criticised Rajkhowa's "political" leadership for having allowed the cadres to "enjoy themselves" with their families in the camps in Bhutan, which led to the debacle, they said.