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BJP leader Sarma slams Rs 100-cr defamation suit against Assam CM Tarun Gogoi
Ref: http://bharatpress.com/2015/12/22/bjp-leader-sarma-slams-rs-100-cr-defamation-suit-against-assam-cm-tarun-gogoi/
Senior BJP leader Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday filed a Rs one hundred-crore defamation suit against Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi and dared him to show, or at the least present detailed details about any felony case against him as claimed by the latter.

“I have right now filed a defamation case within the Kamrup Civil Judge’s courtroom against CM Tarun Gogoi for making an allegation against me by means of a newspaper report that there are a number of felony instances pending against me. I will later additionally file a felony case against him,” Sarma, who was until a few years in the past Gogoi’s most trusted lieutenant, however joined the BJP in August this yr, stated at a press convention.