Congress general secretary, communications, Jairam Ramesh made comparisons between Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and Mir Jafar, the mid-18th century nobleman who supported the British against Nawab of Bengal, Siraj-ud-Daula.
“He is not only Assam Chief Minister… He is the villain of the BJP and is tasked to finish Congress, after getting everything from Congress…if somebody is like Mir Jafar, it is Himanta Biswa Sarma, there is one more Mir Jafar in Jammu and Kashmir, but he is Mir Jafar of the North East,” he said at a protest against Sarma by Congress leaders from Assam.
The reference Ramesh made to ‘Mir Jafar’ of Jammu and Kashmir was to leader Ghulam Nabi Azad, who recently quit Congress and made an announcement to launch his own political party.
Before joining BJP, Sarma was part of Congress and a minister in Tarun Gogoi’s Cabinet.
Ramesh had on August 29 accused Azad of justifying treachery and launching a smear campaign.
“After such a long career, courtesy entirely the party he’s been tasked to slander, by giving interviews indiscriminately, Mr. Azad diminishes himself further. What’s he afraid of that he’s justifying his treachery every minute? He can be easily exposed but why stoop to his level?”, tweeted Ramesh.
Azad, 73, resigned from the Congress on August 26, saying the party was “comprehensively destroyed”. Aside from that, he attacked Rahul Gandhi for “demolishing” the entire party’s consultative mechanism.
“Ghulam Nabi Azad while continuing to fulfil his role assigned to him by his bosses today again made a blatant attempt to distort history in an attempt to generate an undue sympathy from the people of Jammu and Kashmir,” Ramesh had said on Sunday.
