‘Want Rahul Gandhi to campaign in Assam’: CM Himanta Sarma's jibe at Congress leader, says this will ‘benefit BJP as...'

In a direct jibe at Rahul Gandhi, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma expressed his desire for the Congress leader to campaign in the state for Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'s benefit.

"I want Rahul Gandhi to come to Assam and campaign. This will benefit the BJP and hundreds of Congressmen will leave the party," said Assam CM and BJP leader Himanta Biswa Sarma in Silchar.

Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma campaigned for Lok Sabha elections 2024 in Assam's Karimganj and Silchar on Wednesday. During the campaign he targeted the Waynad MP and claimed that remaining members of Congress will also join the BJP if he comes to state for campaigning. 

BJP's Himanta Biswa Sarma and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi have been at loggerheads even during the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra, where the two leaders traded insults on several occasions. Mentioning Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra which passed through Assam as well, CM Sarma said, “'If he comes again, I will not have to make any effort and many more will join us."

Continuing his attack against the Congress, Himanta Biswa Sarma compared Congress with an old note and declared the grand old party of “no use".

"Congress is like an old note now which is of no use and there can be no comparison between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi," he said at a public rally in Silchar.

In another attack at the party, he claimed that Congress headquarters in Guwahati always wear a deserted look with no-one at the party office. He said that visiting to to Rajiv Bhavan in Guwahati will leave people "surprised as nobody there and it appears that there is curfew, a self-imposed curfew''.