Agartala: Militants of the National Liberation Front of Tripura led by Montu Koloy who signed a peace agreement in New Delhi recently would lay down arms to Tripura Governor Dinesh Nandan Sahaya on May six, official sources said today (May 4, 2004).

Besides Montu Koloy the self-styled Army chief of NLFT Dhanu Koloy, vice-president Kamini Debbarma, publicity secretary Binoy Debbarma and revenue secretary Bishnu Prasad Jamatiya would also surrender with 60 others, sources said.

The ultras including women cadres who have come from their base camps in Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) of Bangladesh are now staying in the camps of security forces, the sources said.

Sources said that Chief Minister Manik Sarkar who is also the politburo member of Communist Party Marxist (CPM) now in West Bengal for campaigning is likely to be present in surrender ceremony.

Montu Koloy and his colleagues signed a tri-partite peace agreement with the Centre and Tripura Government in Delhi on April 15 in presence of the Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani.

However, the conditions of the peace accords are yet to be made public.

Meanwhile, Nayanbasi Jamatiya, a rifleman of Tripura State Rifles (TSR) turned insurgent who is now leading another faction of the NLFT has also signed a tri-partite cease-fire agreement with the State and the Central Government in presence of Deputy Prime Minister on April 15 last, official sources said.