GUWAHATI, April 13 -- A complaint has been sent to the National Commission for Women (NCW) against Bharatiya Janata Party leader and Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma over his comments targeting the mother of an opposition candidate in the recently concluded assembly election campaign.

The complaint was filed on Saturday by Sujata Gurung Chowdhury. Her 27-year-old daughter, Kunki Chowdhury, contested from the Central Guwahati assembly constituency as a candidate of Assam Jatiya Parishad (AJP), a constituent of the Congress-led six-party opposition alliance. Assam voted on April 9.

In her complaint, Sujata said Sarma had targeted her in the run-up to the election and circulated an image, alleging that she had hurt the "sentiments ...