Guwahati: Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Friday challenged Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal to speak against him in Assam saying he is ‘corrupt’ and threatened to sue Kejriwal if he does so.
Reportedly, Kejriwal had said in Delhi Assembly that there are cases against Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma in other states.
“Yet I haven’t filed any defamation case. Is there any case against me in any part of the country? I want to file a defamation case, but Arvind Kejriwal like a coward spoke inside the assembly. So let him come to Assam on April 2 and say that, there is a case against Himanta Biswa Sarma, I will sue him rightly,” Sarma said.
Kejriwal is scheduled to address a political rally in Assam along with Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on April 2.
‘Speak against me a single word that I am corrupt and next day I am going to file a defamation case, the same thing I have done against Manish Sisodia,” CM Sarma said.
The Assam Chief Minister said that there is no case against him in any part of the country.
“You (Arvind Kejriwal) should not speak against somebody in Delhi assembly where you know I am not there to defend. So what is the case against me? So somebody has misled all the people that there is some case against me. In entire India, there is no case against me, except for some cases filed by Congress people in various courts” he added.
Sarma had filed a criminal defamation case against Sisodia, former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister, at the Court of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Kamrup, in August last year for levelling some allegations against him at a press conference in New Delhi. The BJP leader was then the health minister.
“There is no case against me before any agency or court,” Sarma said.
The chief ministers of Assam and Delhi have often sparred on Twitter over issues related to education and health.