Like Quattrocchi filing case against Bofors: Himanta Biswa Sarma slams Congress

The Assam Chief Minister hit back at the Congress after allegations of horse-trading to topple the JMM Congress government in Jharkhand

Himanta Biswa Sarma hit back at the “baseless” allegations made by Congress that he was attempting to destabilise and topple the JMM-Congress coalition in Jharkhand.

A Jharkhand Congress MLA, Kumar Jaimangal had filed a police complaint against three of his fellow MLAs who had been found with a huge amount of cash in Howrah, West Bengal. They had allegedly been lured and given Rs 10 crore in cash and ministerial posts if the BJP forms a government in the state.

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Jaimangal also alleged that the 3 MLAs had called him to Kolkata and then to Guwahati to meet Assam Chief Minister, Himanta Biswa Sarma where he would offer them a cash amount worth crores and a ministerial berth if they were successful in toppling the JMM-Congress coalition.

The Assam Chief Minister “is doing it with the blessings of top shots of BJP political party sitting in Delhi,” his letter said

Sarma responded by taking to Twitter and saying “Fake FIR in Jharkhand. The so-called FIR looks like Congress asking Ottavio Quattrocchi to file a case against Bofors.

Ottavio Quattrocchi was an Italian businessman who was being sought until early 2009 in India for criminal charges for acting as a channel for bribes in the Bofors scandal. Quattrocchi’s role in this scandal. His close relations with Sonia and Rajiv Gandhi may have led to Congress’ defeat in the 1989 elections.

Pijush Hazarika, the Parliamentary Affairs and Water Resources Minister of Assam shared a picture of Kumar Jaimangal on Twitter saying “Mr Kumar Jaimangal has been regularly meeting HCM Dr. @himantabiswa sir. He should face the law for making a fraudulent allegation against the Hon’ble Chief Minister of Assam and against those tribal MLAs.”