The firing incident that took place after a clash between Meghalaya villagers and a contingent of police and forest guards from Assam has nothing to do with the border dispute between the two states, said Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma.
Congress leader Manish Tewari on Wednesday, while reacting to Himanta Biswa Sarma's "Saddam Hussein" jibe at Rahul Gandhi, said that the Assam Chief Minister "sounds like a petty troll".
Assam CM Sarma was addressing a public rally in Gujarat on Tuesday, where he took a dig at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Jodo Yatra and said that Nowadays he (Rahul Gandhi) looks like former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.
During the roadshow in Delhi ahead of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi elections, the Assam Chief Minister said India does not need a person like Aaftab (Shraddha murder case accused) but a person like Lord Ram, a leader like Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Rahul Gandhi, reading from a letter purportedly written by Savarkar to the British, claimed the saffron ideologue betrayed leaders such as Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel by signing on a letter of apology to the British before independence.
Citing the bone-chilling incident of the Shraddha murder case in Delhi who was killed by Aftab her live-in partner on May 18, Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday said that such Aftab's would emerge in every city and will not be able to safeguard our society.
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma is currently in Gujarat to address voters ahead of the high-stake Assembly polls in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's home state Gujarat.
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday called on Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman at the latter's office in the national capital and deliberated on key economic issues.
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday appealed to the people of Assam to lit up earthen lamps at their homes on the occasion of Lachit Diwas on November 24.
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday released the theme song of the 400th birth anniversary celebration of the legendary general of Assam Lachit Barphukan in a programme held at Janata Bhawan in Guwahati.
With an aim to expand and increase millet cultivation across the state, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday launched Assam Millet Mission at a function held at Veterinary College playground, Khanapara in Guwahati.