Debunking claims that he had alleged links with the Pakistani establishment, newly-appointed Assam Congress chief Gaurav Gogoi has said he had gone to Pakistan only once 12 years ago and that the Bharatiya Janata Party was raking up the issue like a ‘C-grade Bollywood movie’ that is going to ‘flop miserably’.
Gogoi also asked why the BJP government at the Centre had not acted for the last 11 years if there was any wrongdoing and claimed that Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma was making these allegations with the intention of creating doubts in the minds of the Congress leadership about his credentials but that had been decimated.
“Allegations are made and I would like to clarify that people of the state are not misled. About 14-15 years ago, my wife, who is a well-known expert in public policy, worked on an international project in South Asia focused on climate change. She spent one year in Pakistan before returning to India around 2012-13,” Gogoi according to PTI said at a press conference at the Congress’ 24, Akbar Road office.
“Since then, she has continued her work and took a new job in 2015. I also remember going with her once in 2013. Their (the BJP’s) job is defamation and by raking this issue they are creating this whole thing like a C-grade Bollywood movie which they have said would be released on September 10. But that is going to be a flop miserably,” he said.
