‘Fake AI campaign’ Sparks Allegations as Himanta Biswa Sarma Takes On Congress in Assam | India News
New Delhi: Chief Minister of Assam Himanta Biswa Sharma On Monday, Congress leader Pawan promised to take “sternest action” against Khera for her allegations. He dismissed the claims as a digitally manipulated “fake AI campaign” and expressed confidence that the BJP would win at least 100 seats in the upcoming assembly elections.“…I will take strictest action against Congress leader Pawan Khera, wait a few days. We will win at least 100 seats in the elections” Sarma told reporters.The controversy erupted after Khera alleged at a press conference in Delhi that Sarma’s wife, Rinikki Bhuiyan Sharma, had three passports – a UAE Golden Card, an Antigua and Barbuda passport and an Egyptian passport. Khera also claimed that the family has business interests worth Rs 52,000 crore in the US and produced property documents linking Sarma’s family with apartments in Dubai.Sarma dismissed the allegations as politically motivated lies aimed at misleading the people of Assam.
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The chief minister said both he and his wife would file criminal and civil defamation cases against Khera.“I have full confidence in the judiciary. Once the truth is established in a court of law, Shri Pawan Khera will face the consequences of his actions, and the law will take its due course,” Sarma wrote in X.He also claimed that property documents used to link his family to the Dubai apartment were stolen from document-sharing platform Scribd, identifying the real owners as “Md Ahmad and Fatima Sulaiman”.
Himanta’s wife hits back
Rinikki Bhuyan Sharma has denied all allegations, telling X: “I, my children or my husband have no business interests or assets anywhere outside Dubai or India.”He also took a swipe at Congress leader Gaurav Gogoi, who called for a further probe into the matter. Gogoi called the chief minister “embarrassing” who “must answer questions and pay for his crimes.”In response to Gogoi, Sharma questioned whether his wife “has or has a bank account in Pakistan” and challenged him to reveal those details.
Sarma flag document inconsistency
Sarma pointed out multiple discrepancies in the indictment documents, including surname mismatches, a publicly available photograph instead of biometric capture and spelling errors such as “Egyptian”.He also flagged documents linking him to the Dubai apartment and called all allegations #CongFakeAICampaign.The incremental exchange comes just days before polls in Assam, scheduled for April 9 across 126 constituencies, are counted on May 4.
