{"id":238348,"date":"2024-04-06T00:04:54","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T18:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=238348"},"modified":"2024-04-06T00:04:54","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T18:34:54","slug":"assam-cong-chief-files-rs-10-crore-defamation-suit-against-himanta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2024\/04\/06\/assam-cong-chief-files-rs-10-crore-defamation-suit-against-himanta\/","title":{"rendered":"Assam Cong chief files Rs 10 crore defamation suit against Himanta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Guwahati, Apr 5 (PTI) Assam Congress president Bhupen Kumar Borah has filed a Rs 10 crore defamation suit against Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma at a local court here, claiming that various statements made by the BJP leader have damaged his public image and the party.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The case was filed by Borah in the court of civil judge (senior division) cum assistant sessions judge no 1, Kamrup Metro, on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Besides Sarma, a leading vernacular daily of the state and its editor have been made respondents in the suit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Borah has alleged that Sarma&#8217;s statements on numerous occasions, claiming that the Congress state chief will leave the party soon, has led to a dent in his public image and also harmed the party.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The CM has been claiming that Borah will join the BJP by early next year, which has been refuted by the opposition leader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guwahati, Apr 5 (PTI) Assam Congress president Bhupen Kumar Borah has filed a Rs 10 crore defamation suit against Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma at a local court here, claiming that various statements made by the BJP leader have damaged his public image and the party. The case was filed by Borah in the court [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-238348","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-north-east"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}