'Himanta most corrupt in country': Rahul backs Khera as passport row escalates

NEW DELHI: Even arsenic the particulate of Assam's canvass run has settled, the disfigured faceoff witnessed during the high-octane showdown betwixt main curate Himanta Biswa Sarma and the Congress escalated connected Monday, with Rahul Gandhi calling the Assam CM "the astir corrupt successful the country" who is "abusing authorities powerfulness to harass his governmental opponents".Backing his enactment workfellow Pawan Khera, whose Delhi location Assam constabulary raided aft an explosive assertion against Himanta's wife, the person of absorption successful Lok Sabha said the "Congress stands with Pawan Khera" and that the "party volition not beryllium intimidated"."The contiguous CM of Assam is the astir corrupt successful the country. He volition not flight the law. His maltreatment of authorities powerfulness to harass his governmental opponents and critics is against the Constitution.

The questions that are being raised person to beryllium probed. Transparency, accountability of powerfulness and regularisation of instrumentality are the ground of our Constitutional values. The Congress Party stands with Pawan Khera. We volition not beryllium intimidated," Rahul Gandhi wrote against Himanta, who switched from Congress to the BJP successful 2016.

Khera struck Himanta's nervus aft helium alleged, successful a property conference, the Assam CM's woman held aggregate overseas passports, prompting a crisp rebuttal and ineligible menace from the BJP leader.

“We person documents showing that Assam main curate Himanta Biswa Sarma’s woman Riniki Bhuyan Sharma holds 3 passports. The archetypal is simply a UAE Golden Card, the 2nd an Antigua and Barbuda passport, and the 3rd an Egyptian passport. Two of these beryllium to Islamic countries, yet they proceed to assertion spiritual adherence publicly,” Khera said.Later, Sarma dismissed the claims arsenic politically motivated and said that some helium and his woman volition record a defamation lawsuit against Khera wrong 48 hours. “Today’s property league by Pawan Khera reflects the heavy vexation and panic wrong the Congress party. As Assam moves decisively towards a historical mandate, specified hopeless and baseless attacks lone exposure their sinking ground,” helium wrote connected X.As the faceoff began to worsen, Telangana High Court granted anticipatory bail to Khera successful transportation with a lawsuit registered against him implicit his alleged defamatory remarks against CM Sarma and his wife.