Himanta questions Congress on ‘missing Northeast’ from India map
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CM Sarma lashes out at Rahul Gandhi for Northeast missing from India map shared by Congress. Gogoi retorts by questioning Sarma's family land deals. Gogoi fears X account restricted; Sarma denies charges, threatens defamation suit. Gogoi seeks clarification from X.
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on September 16 lashed out at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi claiming that the northeastern region is missing from a map of India shared by the party on social media.
The grand old party's MP from the State, Gaurav Gogoi, was quick to retort by asking the CM about the land deals by companies linked to his family, claiming that Mr. Sarma is "avoiding" answering it.
Mr. Gogoi, who has been locked in a war of words on X with Mr. Sarma since Wednesday on the issue of the CM's wife's company allegedly given a credit subsidy of ₹10 crore by the Central Government under a scheme, said he feared his account on the micro-blogging site was "restricted", though there has been no official word from the social media giant.
Mr. Sarma shared a screenshot of an animated video from the official X handle of the Congress with pictures of cartoon characters which resemble Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Rahul Gandhi with a map where the Northeast is not visible.
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"Seems the Congress party has secretly struck a deal to sell the entire land of Northeast to some neighbouring country," Mr. Sarma wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
The map carries a toon of Mr. Gandhi in the middle while the screenshot is captioned with an imaginary dialogue between Mr. Modi and Mr. Gandhi, inspired by the popular 'Mere pass maa hai' conversation from the 1975 Bollywood movie 'Deewar'.
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