BJP leader claims to have filed defamation suit against Gogoi

Himanta Biswa Sarma, who was recently inducted into BJP, said he had filed a Rs 100-crore defamation case against Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today for making false allegtions against him.

Sarma, a dissident Congress leader till he joined the BJP, told a press conference that he had filed the defamation case against Gogoi in the civil court, Kamrup, for making "false allegations" against him.

"Recently Chief Minister Gogoi has been saying things against me. Sometimes he says I am an accused in the Saradha ponzi case and Louis Berger case. He has also said that there are criminal cases against me," the former minister said.