‘Advani visited Pak to eulogise Jinnah, Modi to wish Nawaz happy birthday’: Under Himanta fire, Gaurav Gogoi hits back
The Congress leader also responded to the Assam CM’s claims on a delegation of youth Gogoi took to the Pak High Commission in 2015
Assam CM Himanta Sarma (right)has raised a slew of allegations accusing Gaurav Gogoi and his wife, Elizabeth, of links with the ISI. (Express Photos) 
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Responding to allegations of ties to Pakistan made against him by Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi on Tuesday referred to visits to the neighbouring country by BJP veteran L K Advani and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Sarma has raised a slew of allegations accusing Gogoi and his wife, Elizabeth, of links with the ISI and constituted an SIT to probe this in February. The CM has repeatedly alleged that Gogoi had visited Pakistan in an unspecified year for 15 days, which he is now saying was a visit on the invitation of the ISI.
He has also referred to a delegation of youths that Gogoi took to the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi in 2015, as an initiative by an organisation he founded called the Youth Forum on Foreign Policy, claiming that he had taken them there to “brainwash” them.
Calling that allegation “absurd” and asserting that the youths had extensively questioned the then Pakistan High Commissioner’s policies on Kashmir, war and terror and that a news article on that visit had also been published by a journalist present in the delegation, Gogoi turned to visits to Pakistan by BJP leaders.
Citing a 2005 visit by Advani, Gogoi said, “He had even visited Jinnah’s grave, laid a chadar there and eulogised Jinnah.”
He also referred to Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif attending Modi’s swearing-in ceremony in 2014, and Modi’s “surprise visit” to Lahore in 2015.
“The year Modi went to Lahore to wish Nawaz Sharif ‘happy birthday’ is the same year we had the question and answer with the Pakistan High Commissioner. Us going is an offence, and Modi going is biryani diplomacy? I have written in the past that I have no faith in the Pakistan leadership that they will break their terrorist-intelligence-military nexus. We didn’t go to do Jinnah eulogising, we didn’t go to wish Nawaz Sharif happy birthday… This SIT has nothing to do with the truth. It is a political and defamatory tactic,” he said.
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