The Congress party made a big hue and cry when Assam Police knocked on the doors of its senior leader, Pawan Khera, in New Delhi the other day. This incident occurred following an FIR filed by Riniki Bhuyan Sarma, the wife of Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, in Guwahati. The case relates to Khera’s public allegations that Riniki Bhuyan Sarma holds multiple foreign passports and has huge, undeclared overseas assets. These damaging charges were made by him just days before Assam went to polls.

That Khera quietly slipped out of Delhi and surfaced in Congress-ruled Telangana itself suggests he had inside information of the Assam police team’s arrival. It also appears to be an indirect admission that he lacked solid evidence to substantiate his allegations.

The BJP, in response, asserted that the documents displayed by Khera at the press conference were forged. It claimed that the UAE authorities had denied issuing any so-called Golden Passport to the Assam CM’s wife.

One has to see the allegation from the correct perspective. On April 2, Rahul Gandhi, while addressing a public rally at Bokajan in Karbi Anglong, had termed Himanta Biswa Sarma the most corrupt chief minister. He also said that his family was No. 1 in corruption. Khera addressed two press conferences on April 5, one in New Delhi and another in........

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