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GUWAHATI
The parent of an Assam Jatiya Parishad (AJP) candidate, who was defeated successful the April 9 State Assembly election, said she would bring a ₹1 defamation suit connected Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma for “false allegations” made against her during the canvass campaign.
Posting an unfastened missive connected societal media platform X aft Mr. Sarma was sworn successful arsenic the Chief Minister for the 2nd consecutive term, Sujata Gurung Chowdhury besides sought a nationalist apology from the Chief Minister for his remarks with “mala fide intention” during the run to humiliate her publically and enactment her household astatine risk.
She is the parent of 27-year-old Kunki Chowdhury, the AJP campaigner who contested the Guwahati Central constituency and mislaid to the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Vijay Kumar Gupta by 61,921 votes.
Ms. Gurung Chowdhury, 65, said she was a communal pistillate until Mr. Sarma dragged her into the governmental conflict by “repeatedly uttering” her sanction during “your predetermination stint”.
“Hon’ble CM Sirjee, it whitethorn beryllium noted that your defamation suit volition beryllium for an magnitude of ₹1 (Rupee 1 only) on with a nationalist apology from you,” she wrote, without specifying erstwhile the lawsuit would beryllium filed.
Mr. Sarma had branded her a “beef eater”, “non-Sanatani”, and “anti-India communist” without knowing thing astir her life, nutrient habits, culture, religion, ideology, oregon “perhaps maine arsenic a person”, she alleged.
Ms. Gurung Chowdhury accused Mr. Sarma of gathering an predetermination communicative astir her to politically people her daughter, who contested the Guwahati Central constituency arsenic a campaigner of the Congress-led Opposition alliance.
She had initially avoided responding publically to the smear run against her due to the fact that engaging “before a governmental hound does not marque immoderate sense”, she said. She has present due to the fact that Mr. Sarma, arsenic an elected representative, is “answerable to maine and to the public”.
Citizens person the law close to take their religion, culture, nutrient habits, and ideology, Ms. Gurung Chowdhury said. “You whitethorn person won the election, but my conflict volition spell connected arsenic agelong arsenic the communal antheral similar maine keeps breathing,” she said.
“I person not lone been defamed successful public, but the photograph of my insignificant children released successful nationalist domains has endangered their lives,” she alleged, signing disconnected the missive arsenic a “Hindu by commencement and civilization and not by politics”.
Ms. Gurung Chowdhury had earlier approached the National Commission for Women, accusing Mr. Sarma of making “false, baseless and malicious” statements during the campaign.
