Himanta Biswa Sarma made his debut at the World Economic Forum in Davos with the kind of remarks that travel faster than any investment pitch. The Assam Chief Minister couldn’t resist seasoning the usual script of investment, growth and global opportunity with a generous pinch of domestic political drama.

Davos was his stage, and Himanta Biswa Sarma revelled in the bright spotlight, using the global platform to take aim at his former party, the Congress. More specifically, the Gandhi family. Even in the Swiss Alps, the politics stayed thoroughly desi.

In a conversation with NDTV Editor-in-Chief Rahul Kanwal, Sarma insinuated “a cold war” between Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and declared himself a “casualty” of what he called “a long-running family theatre”.

Sarma, who spent over two decades in the Congress before switching to the BJP, claimed he has “inner information” on what he sees as a leadership tussle. In his telling, the Congress’s decision to give Priyanka organisational responsibility in Assam is not some strategic masterstroke but a “polite push” out of Kerala.

And trust Sarma to deliver it with the confidence of a man who has spent enough time in party corridors to know where secrets are kept — and where knives are quietly sharpened.

Priyanka Vadra, Congress MP from Kerala’s Wayanad, now heads an election committee in Assam. To Sarma, that is the political equivalent of “sending someone to supervise a match in a stadium they have never visited”.

His reading of the move was........

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