New Delhi, April 5 -- Hours after the Congress made a series of serious allegations against Himanta Biswa Sarma and his wife, Riniki Bhuyan Sharma, the Assam chief minister has responded to all the charges head-on, claiming to "bust Congress propaganda". He has also vowed to file criminal and defamation cases against senior Congress leader Pawan Khera who held a press conference to make the expose.

In a long post on X, Himanta Biswa Sarma claimed that the documents that were shown by the Congress show "multiple glaring inconsistencies, suggesting a crude and poorly executed attempt at digital manipulation."

First, he said, was surname mismatch. "SARMA" used instead of the official "SHARMA" and photograph "appears to be a publicly availa...