Himanta Biswa Sarma slams Gaurav Gogoi

way2barak 30 July: On Tuesday Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi delivered a fierce speech in Parliament on the Pahalgam terror attack and Operation Sindoor, asking questions of the government’s military strategy and demanding transparency about the number of Indian fighter jets shot down by Pakistan.

On Wednesday Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma threatened to transfer an ongoing state inquiry – into ‘links’ between the Congress leader’s wife and a Pak-based non-governmental organisation – to the federal anti-terror body, the National Investigation Agency.

Mr Sarma said the SIT, or special investigative team, formed by his government believes a ‘deeper’ inquiry into the ‘links’ between the Gogois and Pakistan is necessary.

The Chief Minister said he may recommend the NIA take over later this year.

The threat followed comments by Home Minister Amit Shah and Dilip Saikia, a Bharatiya Janata Party MP from Assam, in Parliament. The former accused Mr Gogoi of having travelled to Pak and the latter targeted his wife, Elizabeth Colburn Gogoi, of being ‘on the payroll’ of that country.

As justification Mr Saikia claimed Pak media reports- as part of reportage on the Parliament session – used parts of his speech in articles critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Mr Gogoi later responded to Amit Shah’s attacks, saying, “I went to Pakistan before Modiji went to Pakistan to eat biryani… I don’t know why he (Amit Shah) brought that up.