India, April 6 -- Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday accused Congress of using documents from a social media group linked to Pakistan to forge alleged passports of three countries belonging to his wife, Riniki Bhuyan Sharma.

On Sunday, Congress held two press conferences in Delhi and Guwahati, where the party's media department head, Pawan Khera, and Assam unit chief, Gaurav Gogoi, alleged that Sarma's wife has passports of the UAE, Egypt, and Antigua and Barbuda. They alleged she owns properties in Dubai (UAE) and has a company in Wyoming (US).

"There is a Pakistani angle to it as all the data which was used to fabricate the alleged passports was taken from a social media group called Pakistanis in Ajman [Facebook]," sa...