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'King of Assam' will go to jail over graft: Rahul; CM hits back: 'LoP out on bail'
The New Indian Express Kollam
|July 17, 2025
VISITING Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma entered into a verbal contest on Wednesday, with Gandhi telling Sarma that the "king of Assam" would go to jail.
"Your CM does not consider himself the chief minister but the king of Assam. You will soon find him going to jail. The Congress will not do it. The people of Assam will. They know he is corrupt," Gandhi lashed out at a party programme in Assam's Chaygaon.
This story is from the July 17, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Kollam.
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