Guwahati, April 24: Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday raised security concerns, stating that an “important functionary of the Congress Parliamentary Party, who happens to be an MP from Assam, had stayed for 15 days in Pakistan without informing either the central government or the state government.”
“In order to avoid attention, the Congress MP had taken the land route to Islamabad in Pakistan via the Attari border and stayed in that country for 15 days without informing the central or the state government,” Sarma told mediapersons here, without naming the Congress leader.
The chief minister further informed that the MP had, during that time, also travelled to Nepal, where Pakistan’s ISI was “highly active.”.
“There was no public engagement during the Nepal visit. It was mostly clandestine. We are trying to connect the knots to establish whether the back-to-back visits to the two countries have any connection or whether they were independent visits,” he said.
“We also have evidence that the MP’s wife had received salary for three years from a Pakistani organisation while she was working in Delhi. We have examined the staff of the organisation and they have confirmed the same. The matter is currently being investigated by a Special Investigation Team,” Sarma said.
“The investigation team will of course meet the MP and his family in June or July to record their statements. A report will be submitted by September this year,” he said.