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Guwahati, Mar 05: The Assam Congress on Fridaycalled the photos of tea gardens shared by senior minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on the Twitter as ‘fake’ and said they were not used by the party in its poll campaign.
The photos were those of the tea gardens of Taiwan and were definitely not used by Congress in its ‘Axom Bachao Ahok’ (Come, Let Us Save Assam) campaign as alleged by Sarma, Assam Pradesh Congress Committee spokesperson Bobbeeta Sharma told PTI.
BJP is rattled as people who want progress to return in the state are connecting with the Congress and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s visit to the poll-bound state has left the saffron party worried, she said.
The two-phased state election is slated for March 27 and April 1.
Sarma, the state finance minister and senior BJP leader of the north east, had tweeted twice on Thursday under the hashtag #CongressInsultsAssam…