Cong took Pak help to morph wife’s pic on passport; created fake shell entities: Sarma

Guwahati: Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday intensified his attack on Congress, claiming he had registered a company in Wyoming, US, in the names of Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi and his wife to show how easily shell entities can be created online.

Sarma said the company was set up for USD 199 as a “fake” entity to counter what he described as fabricated allegations by Congress against his family. “We created ‘GauravElizabeth786 Limited Liability LLC’ by paying USD 199,” Sarma said.

Later, he wrote on X, “We have now successfully registered one LLP in Wyoing using similar toolkit that @INCIndia used to create the fake company in my wife’s name. Tech is not just available to Cong, it is available to us too. Say Hello to 'GauravElizabeth786.”

“The point we want to drive is how anyone can create a company in minutes. Congress has used similar tricks to level false charges against my family,” he said.

Records on the Wyoming Secretary of State’s website show a company named “GauravElizabeth786 LLC”, with the application filed at 8.33 pm on April 5, 2026. The same website also lists “HRINIKINANDI LLC”, which Congress leader Pawan Khera had alleged was a shell company linked to Sarma and his wife, Riniki Bhuyan Sharma. The filing for that entity was made at 10.33am on April 3, 2026, two days before Khera raised the issue in New Delhi.

Sarma also rejected allegations that his wife held multiple foreign passports, saying the documents circulated by Congress were doctored and sourced from a Pakistani social media group. He said the allegations were made “with a malicious intent to vitiate the poll atmosphere in the state,” and added, “I am concerned that they took the help of Pakistan. This is not a simple fraud case but a crime against the nation.”

According to Sarma, a social media group called “Pakistanis in Ajman” was used to build the case against his wife. He alleged that her photograph was pasted onto a lost passport image circulating online. He further added, “Pakistan is attempting to influence the Assam polls. There have been at least 11 TV talk shows on Pakistani channels where the general narrative was that Congress should win.”

On Sunday, Congress leaders Pawan Khera and Gaurav Gogoi had claimed Riniki held passports from the UAE, Egypt and Antigua and Barbuda, owned two properties in Dubai, and had assets in shell companies in the US.

Sarma on Monday evening said, “All the three countries, the UAE, Egypt and Antigua-Barbuda, have officially confirmed that the passports presented by Congress are fake.” On the UAE travel document, Sarma explained, “The UAE issues a Golden VISA, which is not a passport. That country doesn’t issue a passport to any individual who is not an Emirati citizen or official.”

Pointing to anomalies, Sarma said the ID number on the alleged UAE document was inconsistent. “The second numeral series denotes the year of birth, which in my wife’s case is 1973, but it is mentioned as 1996. The number is actually of a person, Ashraf Abdelkader Abelsamad Hussein, an Egyptian citizen born in 1996, who lost his passport and its information was uploaded in the Pakistan group for finding it,” he claimed.

On the Egyptian passport, Sarma said, “There was a mismatch in the number listed on top and the one in the Machine Readable Zone (MRZ). This passport actually belongs to a woman named Nihad Ibrahim Al Sayed Alnaggar, a citizen of Egypt. They forged the details written in English, but the Arabic details remained the same, with a slight change in the passport number,” he said.

On the Antigua Barbuda passport, Sarma said the document carried typographical errors and anomalies in the MRZ. He alleged that Congress circulated fabricated LLC documents dated December 5, 2025, and April 3, 2026, but both were created after their press conference.

Addressing the charge about shell companies, Sarma remarked, “They tried this playbook in the St. Kitts case, but those days are over. Any fabrication will be met with the full force of law; my legal team is already at work.” He recalled that the St. Kitts case was a conspiracy to frame former PM V P Singh by forging documents to suggest his son held an illegal account in the Caribbean island.

Sarma also took aim at Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi, son of former chief minister Tarun Gogoi, saying it was “unfortunate” that he could “stoop so low” to make false allegations against his wife.