The chief minister further said that he will hold a press conference to share details about the "body double" with the media after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's state visit.
Digital Desk: Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Friday claimed that the state police already identified the "body double" that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was allegedly utilizing during the state's Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra.
The chief minister further said that he will hold a press conference to share details about the "body double" with the media after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's state visit.
"We have filed two complaints against Rahul and other Congress officials in relation to the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra. While the Special Investigation Team (SIT) has been created and is working on the Guwahati case, the district police are investigating the Jorhat case. Rahul Gandhi's body double from his Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra in the state has been recognized. I will brief the media on that at a news conference after Prime Minister Narendra Modi returns. Rahul's body double cheered the crowd on most of the roads where the yatra was conducted, not Rahul himself. And after the controversy, the body double quietly left the city and went straight to Delhi without accompanying him to the next leg, i.e. from Guwahati to Bengal," CM Sarma stated at the press conference.
Earlier, during a press conference, Sarma raised the claim that the Congress MP had used a "body double" while on the Yatra. He cited a story from a media that said that the person sitting and waving to people from the Yatra bus was "probably not Rahul Gandhi at all."
"I'm not just saying things. I will provide the name of the duplicate as well as how it was done. Just wait a few days, said the chief minister when asked about the charge against Gandhi by reporters on the sidelines of a function in Sonitpur district.
The Congress MP had said that Sarma was the "most corrupt CM of India" during the Manipur-Maharashtra Nyay Yatra, which was being led by Gandhi and had passed through Assam between January 18 and 25.
The opposition party also accused the BJP-led government of denying or having issues with route approvals across the state. When Congress officials and workers pushed over police barricades put up to keep them from accessing Guwahati's main city limits, the situation reached a breaking point.
Gandhi and others were then named in an FIR over the event, and Sarma later declared that they will be detained following the Lok Sabha elections because he did not want to "politicize" the matter before the elections.
Sarma insisted that to beat him in the state, the Congress would want "all the Gandhis"—Rahul, Priyanka, and Sonia.
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