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Hours aft Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma denied Congress allegations regarding his woman allegedly holding aggregate passports and properties abroad, Lok Sabha MP Gaurav Gogoi connected Monday (April 6, 2026) challenged the BJP person to contradict the claims nether oath connected the Bhagavad Gita.
Speaking to reporters aft an predetermination rally successful Raha, the Assam Congress president questioned Mr. Sarma and asked whether helium was hiding assets and concern interests overseas portion spreading "falsehoods" astir governmental rivals.
A time aft Congress leaders Pawan Khera and Mr. Gogoi sought to know whether Mr. Sarma’s woman has 3 overseas passports, owns spot successful Dubai, has companies successful the U.S., oregon has placed assets successful ammunition companies, the Chief Minister connected Monday (April 6) greeting claimed the Opposition party had concocted the charges utilizing mendacious accusation from a Pakistani societal media group.
"I told this yesterday, and I americium again repeating it present — I tin accidental nether an oath connected the Bhagavad Gita that I don't person immoderate spot successful London arsenic alleged by Mr. Sarma. Can helium bash that? I situation him to travel to a communal spot and to bash the aforesaid nether an oath connected the Bhagavad Gita," Mr. Gogoi said.
He asserted that if specified properties were not declared successful the predetermination affidavit, Sarma could not present judge their existence, arsenic it would pb to the cancellation of his candidature.
"The questions are elemental — does your woman person a Golden Visa for Dubai? Do you oregon immoderate household subordinate ain spot there? Is the Golden visa connected an Indian passport? Does immoderate household subordinate of Himanta Biswa Sarma run a concern successful a overseas country? Has Himanta Biswa Sarma disclosed his oregon his family's wealthiness and properties overseas successful his predetermination affidavit? Mr. Sarma should invited an probe if helium has thing to hide," Mr. Gogoi said.
He asserted that if the Congress comes to powerfulness successful Assam, it would prosecute investigations into Mr. Sarma's alleged undisclosed overseas holdings and concern operations.
"Legal enactment volition beryllium taken against each amerciable properties, businesses and networks linked to him," the Deputy Leader of Congress successful Lok Sabha said.
At a property league successful Guwahati successful the morning, Mr. Sarma said these charges person been made to power the canvass results, which is "punishable nether the law".
He besides alleged that the documents the Congress utilized to marque the allegations against his woman were sourced from a societal media radical "Pakistanis successful Ajman", and her photograph was morphed connected a mislaid passport of a idiosyncratic from that country.
The Chief Minister said his woman Riniki Bhuyan Sharma has filed a constabulary ailment against Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera against the allegations.
Mr. Khera connected Sunday (April 5) alleged that Sarma's woman has 3 passports of the UAE, Egypt and Antigua-Barbuda, 2 properties successful Dubai and assets successful ammunition companies successful the U.S.
