Nitumoni Saikia wishes victorious journey to Himanta Biswa Sarma despite slams

Guwahati, February 2, 2019:

Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma is known for making controversial statements about Moinbari Satra in Assam and he has again targeted Editor-in-Chief of Pratidin, Nitumoni Saikia, regarding his visit to the same.

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While addressing a BJP rally in Tezpur, Himanta has again lambasted the senior journalist saying, “Moinbari Satra has turned out to be a controversy, and became a pilgrimage site. Journalists are now moving in and out of the site. Since people are visiting the place so frequently, I would suggest them to bring and place the ‘Akhyai Banti’ (the continuously burning earthen lamp inside a religious place) there.”

“People are saying that I had challenged them to visit Moinbari Satra, so they went there. But I didn’t challenge him to simply go there, I challenged him to go and light the Akhyai Banti in the Satra. Otherwise, everyone is visiting here and there where they can have local chicken, and they don’t have any objection to that”, charged Biswa Sarma.

In response to this statement, Nitumoni Saikia said, “I am well aware of what Himanta Biswa Sarma has said about me at the BJP convention in Tezpur. After listening to his statement, I feel pity for him because I think he might have forgotten what he said out of pressure or due to attending too many campaign rallies. Every day, he is coming up with dubious statements about what he had commented earlier. He might have forgotten what he said in a previous speech, which happened in today’s convention as well.”

“He challenged me to go to Bagbor and to Moinbori and I accepted the challenge and went there. Even today, he has made remarks about lighting earthen lamps in Moinbori Satra in a controversial manner. So I am saying that he does not have the sense of what he is commenting. At last, I simply want to wish Himanta Biswa Sarma’s a victorious political journey. Time will give the necessary answers to everything, so we must wait for the right moment.”