Himanta Sarma says another defamation case soon against Rahul Gandhi
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Guwahati: It seems Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has been all but obsessed with issuing defamation threats against Rahul Gandhi in recent weeks.
On Sunday, he announced that he would file a defamation case gains the Congress leader, who has been convicted by a court after a defamation case and has been disqualified as a Lok Sabha member. Sarma's new case is over Rahul's tweet that allegedly linked the Assam CM to the Adani Group, PTI reported.
He said that he will file the case after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Guwahati on April 14.
"Whatever Rahul Gandhi tweeted, it's defamatory. We will respond after the PM leaves the state," he said.
He said that whatever Rahul Gandhi tweeted was defamatory, and they would respond once the PM left the state. A case will definitely be filed in Guwahati, Sarma confirmed.
Rahul Gandhi has mocked some leaders who quit the Congress in recent years and some who joined BJP.
He tweeted that they hide the truth, and this gets misled every day. "The question remains the same - whose ₹ 20,000 crores benami money is in Adani's companies?" NDTV translated his tweet.
Rahul cited the names of Ghulam Nabi Azad, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Himanta Biswa Sarma, Kiran Kumar Reddy and Anil K Antony in his tweet. When the others joined BJP, Azad had formed his own party after leaving Congress, but he had issued a statement that Narendra Modi was more generous to him than anyone from Congress.
Assam CM Sarma quoted Rahul's tweet and said, "It was our decency to have never asked you, on where have you concealed the proceeds of crime from the Bofors and National Herald Scams. And how you allowed Ottavio Quattrocchi to escape the clutches of Indian justice multiple times. Anyway, we will meet in the Court of Law (sic)."