Himanta Sarma has nothing to prove my Pak links: Gaurav Gogoi hits back
India Today
The political tension in Assam escalates as Congress leader Gaurav Gogoi accuses Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma of suppressing an SIT report and dragging his family into a political controversy.
A simmering political battle in Assam turned sharply personal on Monday as Congress leader Gaurav Gogoi accused Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma of sitting on an SIT report for six months because it failed to back allegations linking him to Pakistan, and of dragging his family, including his minor children, into what he called a “flop political drama”.
Addressing reporters in Guwahati, the Assam Congress president said the Chief Minister’s nearly two-and-a-half-hour press conference a day earlier was not driven by national security concerns but by political anxiety.
“If this was really about national security, why was he sitting idle for the last six months?” Gogoi asked. “The truth is, the SIT report has nothing to prove his allegations. That is why it was buried.”
Gogoi linked the timing of the allegations to the Congress party’s growing mobilisation in the state and its campaign over land allegedly held by the Chief Minister’s family.
“The main fact behind yesterday’s long press conference is the Congress party’s rising popularity,” he said. “The Chief Minister was forced to come out only after we disclosed that 12,000 bighas of land are held by his family.”
Calling the press meet a “super flop”, Gogoi said even journalists present in the room appeared unconvinced. “After two-and-a-half hours, nobody was convinced. What they saw was worse than a C-grade cinema,” he said later in a post on X.
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