Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday filed a Rs 500-crore defamation case in opposition to senior Congress leaders Jitendra Singh, Bhupesh Baghel and Gaurav Gogoi over “false” and “malicious” allegations made by them over his land holdings. The allegations have spiced up Assam’s political corridors forward of elections this yr.
The event comes after Gogoi, who’s the Assam Congress president, claimed final week {that a} probe by the social gathering revealed that nearly 12,000 bighas of land had been occupied by Sarma and his relations throughout the state.
Hours after the costs had been made, the Assam Chief Minister introduced that he would file a defamation case for making claims with none proof.
The go well with, looking for Rs 500 crore in damages, was ultimately filed on Tuesday.
“At present, I’ve filed a defamation case looking for Rs 500 crore in damages in opposition to Congress leaders Jitendra Singh, Bhupesh Baghel and Gaurav Gogoi for making false, malicious and defamatory allegations in opposition to me by way of a press convention,” Sarma tweeted.
Beforehand, Sarma asserted that he will not be “intimidated” by propaganda, slander, or political theatrics of “slaves of the Gandhi household”.
The firebrand BJP chief, who left the Congress in 2015, additional posted, “The period of hit-and-run politics is over. If they’ve even an oz of braveness or proof, allow them to show each allegation earlier than a court docket of regulation.”
HIMANTA SARMA VS GAURAV GOGOI 2.0
Assam’s political house has already heated up forward of the meeting elections this yr.
Sarma opened one other entrance in opposition to Gogoi after he alleged that the Congress chief and his British spouse, Elizabeth Colburn, had “deep hyperlinks” with a Pakistani nationwide, Ali Tauqeer Sheikh. The Chief Minister steered that intel may need been handed to Pakistan.
The Congress hit again swiftly, claiming that Sarma had no documentary proof to assist his claims and “misplaced his psychological stability”.
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