Himanta Biswa Sarma's "Outdated Mates" Reply To Jharkhand Congress Allegations

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Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma stated Congress leaders are his previous associates. (File)

Guwahati:

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday stated he continues to keep up a correspondence with Congress leaders due to his lengthy affiliation with the occasion, downplaying the allegations of his involvement in a ploy to topple the JMM-led Jharkhand authorities.

Mr Sarma, the BJP strongman of the Northeast, stated Congress leaders are his previous associates and there may be nothing a lot to learn into it.

"Congress leaders keep up a correspondence with me as previous associates. I had been in that occasion for over 20 years. They meet me if they arrive right here and I additionally meet them when in New Delhi," he informed reporters.

Mr Sarma, who converted to the BJP in 2015, made the assertion after the Congress claimed that three of its Jharkhand MLAs arrested within the money haul in West Bengal's Howrah have been in contact with the Assam Chief  Minister.

Appearing on a tip-off, the West Bengal Police on Saturday night intercepted an SUV through which Congress MLAs Irfan Ansari, Rajesh Kachchap and Naman Bixal Kongari have been travelling, and allegedly discovered an enormous amount of money within the car. After questioning them in a single day, the police arrested them on Sunday afternoon.

The Congress claimed that the BJP was attempting to topple its coalition authorities with the JMM in Jharkhand by providing Rs 10 crore to every legislator, apart from promising a ministerial berth.

After lodging a police grievance over this, Jharkhand Congress legislator Kumar Jaimangal claimed, "Rajesh Kachchap and Naman Bixal Kongari have been asking me to go to Kolkata and have been providing cash, promising Rs 10 crore per MLA. Ifran Ansari and Rajesh Kachchap needed to take me to Guwahati from Kolkata the place based on them a gathering was fastened with Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma."

Earlier than the Uddhav Thackeray authorities in Maharashtra was toppled, insurgent Siv Sena MLAs, led by now Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, had a protracted keep at a lodge in Guwahati, purportedly underneath the patronage of the Himanta Biswa Sarma-led Assam authorities.

Mr Sarma had himself visited the luxurious lodge on the day the legislators from Maharashtra had reached town, whereas senior state ministers and cops have been seen on the lodge commonly throughout their keep.

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