Silchar, April 19 -- Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday criticised Congress for allegedly trying to "delegitimise" the delimitation exercise carried out in the state in 2023 by terming it "gerrymandering".

Sarma's remarks come amid the back-and-forth between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress over the Opposition blocking a constitutional amendment bill that sought to expand the Lok Sabha.

In a Facebook post last week, Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi had alleged that the BJP was trying to manipulate boundaries.

"One of the BJP's dangerous plans is to "gerrymander" all Lok Sabha seats to its advantage for the 2029 elections," he said, citing the 2023 exercise in Assam and Jammu and Ka...