‘Himanta tarnishing Assam’s symbol’: Congress on CM’s father-son observation towards Rahul Gandhi

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GUWAHATI: The Congress in Assam slammed Leader Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma for his alleged offensive observation towards celebration stalwart Rahul Gandhi and his circle of relatives.

In poll-bound Uttarakhand, Sarma had on Friday come down closely on Gandhi for not easy evidence of the 2016 surgical strike and instructed the Congress chief if the BJP ever requested him to end up he used to be the son of former High Minister Rajiv Gandhi.

The Assam Congress mentioned this type of observation from a CM used to be uncalled for. “A highly-educated and civilised guy does no longer make this type of remark. He used to be elected because the CM by means of the folks of Assam and he represented the state in Uttarakhand. His observation, made for some votes, used to be each towards Indian civilisation and Assamese tradition,” Assam Congress chief Debabrata Saikia mentioned.

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It’s not truthful for any person to make this type of “derogatory” remark towards an individual and his circle of relatives. This may increasingly take the rustic’s politics down, the Congress chief mentioned.

“He (Sarma) says he’ll deliver new tradition, exchange in Assam. If that is what he’s going to deliver, nobody can save the state,” Saikia mentioned.

He mentioned everybody must condemn the remark.

Congress’ scholars’ wing Nationwide Scholars’ Union of India (NSUI) demanded that Sarma surrender as CM and apologise for the observation.

The participants of NSUI additionally staged a protest in New Delhi. They chanted slogans towards Sarma and smeared his posters and effigy in black.

The Assam CM, alternatively, remained unfazed.

“Karma hits us again. We will be able to by no means realise the ache of a soldier, who dangers his existence to behavior surgical strike on enemy land, when a Congress chief insults his patriotic act by means of not easy evidence of it. Time for any individual to introspect,” he tweeted on Saturday.