"Don't Believe Gandhis Gave Us Anything": Himanta Sarma On Congress Stint

There has been a perceptional change in the northeast since 2014. Development was at a very slow pace and suddenly there was a great change in terms of connectivity, said Himanta Biswa Sarma.

Assam Chief Minister and BJP's pointsperson in the northeast, Himanta Biswa Sarma, today snubbed the Congress - his former party - and hit back at its senior leader Jairam Ramesh who called him a result of "only two real sins" committed by the grand old party in the northeast.

"When I was in Congress, Jairam Ramesh was never kind to me. I was also never kind to him," he said in an exclusive conversation with NDTV's Editor-in-Chief Sanjay Pugalia as part of a special series to mark the 76th Independence Day.

"I always told Congress - you didn't give me anything. I gave the party a lot," he asserted.