He is said to be one of the close confidantes of the group's commander-in-chief Paresh Baruah and an RPG expert.
[5] In November 2011, ULFA commander-in-chief Paresh Baruah ranked up him as the Deputy commander-in-chief along with Bijay Das alias Bijay Chinese, forming a new central committee after Arabinda Rajkhowa and his followers involved with Lateral talk to GoI.
[6] Manoj Rabha joined the ULFA in 1988 and adopted the alias Drishti Rajkhowa.
He was in constant touch with me and I told him not to take the extreme step and asked him to stop fighting knowing fully well about his wife’s health condition and the wellbeing of his two children.
Baruah also said "Rajkhowa was surrounded by the security forces for about a week and that he also thought of committing suicide"[12] [13]