The Prime Minister, who will arrive in Agartalal on Thursday on an official visit, will on Friday morning travel to Numaligarh in upper Assam to formally announce the commissioning of a Rs 2725-crore oil refinery, after which he will fly to Guwahati to give away the prestigious Sankaradeva Awards to noted litterateur Syed Abdul Malik and internationally-reputed painter and sculptor Bhabesh Sanyal the same evening.

The Prime Minister will also address the public and is likely to announce his party's as well as the Government's manifesto for the north eastern region. This will be Vajpayee's first public meeting after the Army recaptured Tiger Hill.

The ULFA, NSCN along with the Manipur People'sLiberation Front and Tripura People's Democratic Front, have urged the people to boycott the Prime Minister's functions.

The ULFA, it may be recalled, has been repeatedly stating that the Pakistani infiltrators into the Kargil sector were "Kashmiri freedom fighters," and criticising the Army for crushing their "struggle". But despite this support for the Pakistani infiltrators, the ULFA has, at the same time, been denying that it was working on behalf of Pakistan's Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI). The State Government and especially the Army here have been repeatedly saying that the ULFA was working hand-in-glove with the Pakistani intelligence agencies, and that its activists have been regularly calling up ISI bureau in Lahore and other places to pass on information on Army movement in the the north eastern region.