A piece of BJP staff and leaders, together with Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, has launched an offensive towards Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi, elevating questions on his spouse’s overseas citizenship and her having labored in Pakistan previously. Gogoi Wednesday rubbished this as politicking forward of the 2026 Assam Meeting election.
In a reference to Gaurav’s spouse Elizabeth Gogoi — who’s initially from the UK and works in local weather coverage — Sarma posted on X on Wednesday morning that Indian Overseas Providers officers require permission from the Union authorities to marry foreigners and decide to their spouses buying Indian citizenship.
“Nonetheless, permitting a overseas partner of a lawmaker to retain overseas citizenship for 12 years is way too lengthy. Loyalty to the nation should all the time take priority over all concerns,” he wrote.
His assertion got here within the wake of some social media accounts elevating alarm over Elizabeth Gogoi having labored in Pakistan as properly throughout her time working on the Local weather Growth and Data Community (CDKN), Asia between 2011 and 2015.
Himanta escalated his allegations within the afternoon, posting: “Critical questions should be answered relating to allegations of ISI hyperlinks, main younger people to the Pakistan Embassy for brainwashing and radicalization, and the refusal to take Indian citizenship for the previous 12 years…”
Gogoi laughed these allegations away whereas talking to reporters on Wednesday, saying he “trusts the conscience of the general public.”
“Usually these sorts of issues emerge near elections. Final time once I was contesting for the Jorhat Lok Sabha seat, these questions began coming a couple of month earlier than elections. ‘Why did he marry a girl from one other nation? May he not discover a girl in Assam?’ These ‘masala’ issues come up round elections. However this time, elections will not be even shut. There’s one yr left [for the Assam assembly elections] and the BJP have already began this stuff,” he stated. Gogoi accused Sarma of being “uncertain” of whether or not he will likely be chosen because the BJP’s Chief Ministerial candidate in 2026
Story continues beneath this advert
Taking a dig at Sarma’s spouse Riniki Bhuyan Sarma proudly owning a media community which incorporates TV information channels and digital portals, Gogoi stated, “If my spouse is a Pakistan agent, I’m an Indian agent and India will win,.. What’s going to I argue with them? My spouse doesn’t personal her personal channel the place we are able to break this disinformation. We don’t have our personal portal. It’s okay, we go away it to the conscience of the individuals. The individuals know very properly what’s true.”
© The Indian Categorical Pvt Ltd
