Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has accused the Congress party of using documents from a social media group linked to Pakistan to forge passports of three countries belonging to his wife, Riniki Bhuyan Sharma.
The Congress party had held two press conferences in Delhi and Guwahati, where they alleged that Sarma's wife has passports of the UAE, Egypt, and Antigua and Barbuda, and owns properties in Dubai (UAE) and has a company in Wyoming (US).
Sarma said that the data used to fabricate the alleged passports was taken from a social media group called Pakistanis in Ajman, and that news channels in Pakistan have done several talk shows on the election in Assam, showing a conspiracy hatched in the neighbouring country to influence the results of the election.
Sharma filed a case in Guwahati against Congress leader Pawan Khera and others seeking action against their "fake allegations".
Sarma refuted the Congress allegations, registering a limited liability company (LLC) in Wyoming with ₹52,000 crore investment, and also registering a fake LLC in the same state with the names of Gaurav Gogoi and his wife.
He said that the Congress presented a document showing the minutes of a meeting of their alleged company in 2025, but the Wyoming government website shows the company was registered two days ago.
Sarma said that the alleged UAE passport was forged from a lost document updated on the Facebook group, the Egyptian passport was forged from a document belonging to a woman citizen of that country, and there were typographical errors in the forged Antigua and Barbuda passport.
He said that a simple reverse search of those documents presented shows that they are fake, and the photos shown in the three alleged passports were doctored and can be clearly detected.
The Union government has sought clarifications from authorities in the UAE, Egypt, and Antigua and Barbuda about their authenticity, and Sarma said that the government has informed them that no such documents exist in the UAE, and the authorities of Antigua and Barbuda have stated that a preliminary look at the alleged passport indicates it to be a fake one.
