People of Assam deserve better, they will get it after 2026 polls: Gaurav Gogoi

Launching a scathing critique at Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, Congress leader Gaurav Gogoi declared that the people of Assam deserve a brighter future — a promise he vowed would be fulfilled after the 2026 assembly elections.

Gogoi further attacked Sarma over his 'latest flop show', alluding to the Assam Police’s probe into alleged Pakistani links of the Congress deputy leader in the Lok Sabha — a report whose contents remain shrouded in secrecy.

"I feel sorry for a chief minister whose words have lost all credibility and whose actions have made a mockery of the chair," Gogoi said in a post on microblogging platform X.

Gogoi, who also serves as president of the Assam Pradesh Congress Committee, lamented that the chief minister has been at the center of 'countless ignominious episodes' that have repeatedly embarrassed the state.

He recollected an instance when the chief minister had claimed that he saw Rahul Gandhi's "body double" during the 'Bharat Jodo Yatra'.

"The latest flop show is even bigger than 'RG's body double'. The people of Assam deserve better — and they will get better in 2026," he declared.

On Thursday, Sarma had said that the report of Assam Police's Special Investigation Team probing the alleged Pakistani links of Gogoi and family contains serious allegations, which he described as a matter of "deep concern".

"I will raise the matter in the cabinet and discuss it with my ministerial colleagues," the chief minister had said.

Sarma stated that the report’s findings would soon be unveiled in accordance with the legal process, promising to disclose as much to the media as possible while safeguarding sensitive, confidential details.

With PTI inputs