Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on January 25 said Congress leader Rahul Gandhi timed his Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra with the build-up to the consecration of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya to trigger a communal clash in the State.
He said his government and the Batadrava Than Management Committee had requested the Congress leader to visit the Batadrava shrine in central Assam’s Nagaon district after 3 p.m. on January 22 to avoid any law-and-order issue that could have arisen out of sentiments attached to Ayodhya event that day.
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