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Himanta Biswa Sarma slams Rahul Gandhi’s Lok Sabha remark

File photo of Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma (Source: The Hindu)

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma reacted sharply to Congress MP Rahul Gandhi’s charge in the Lok Sabha that Home Minister Amit Shah disrespected a delegation of Manipur leaders by asking them to remove their footwear when meeting him while keeping his own slippers on.

“Mr. Rahul Gandhi, those who prefer to feed biscuits to dogs in the presence of leaders from Assam and then offer them the same biscuits should be the last people to talk about political decency. High command mindset is INC’s (Indian National Congress) be all and end all. The people of India know it well,” he tweeted as soon as Mr. Gandhi’s speech during the Motion of Thanks to the President for his address to both Houses of Parliament concluded.

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