Assam Assembly passes UCC Bill, CM Sarma calls it ‘most secular, uniform and progressive law’
With the passage of the proposed legislation, Assam has now emerged as the third state, after Uttarakhand and Gujarat, to pass a Uniform Civil Code Bill.
Assam Pradesh Congress Committee President Gaurav Gogoi on Monday challenged state Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma to deny his wife Riniki Bhuyan Sarma’s multiple passports claim under oath on the Bhagavad Gita.
Speaking to reporters after addressing an election rally in Raha, Gogoi also asked CM Sharma whether he was hiding assets and business interests abroad.
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The Congress party had on Sunday claimed that the Assam CM’s wife possesses passports from UAE, Antigua-Barbuda and Arab Republic of Egypt.
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Addressing a press conference, Congress Media and Publicity Department Chairman Pawan Khera stated that all the three passports are active and asked Himanta to explain how his wife could hold passports from two Muslim countries when, according to him, the Assam CM’s entire politics is allegedly based on hatred against the community.
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However, Himanta categorically rejected the allegations, terming them “malicious, fabricated, and politically motivated lies”.
He also threatened to file criminal and civil defamation cases against Khera for making “reckless and defamatory statements.”
“I categorically reject every allegation made by him. These are malicious, fabricated, and politically motivated lies aimed at misleading the people of Assam,” CM Sarma said on X.
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