Guwahati, Feb. 8 -- A major political drama unfolded in Assam between Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and Assam Congress President Gaurav Gogoi on Sunday, with both levelling major allegations against each other, involving espionage and corruption.

Addressing a long-awaited press conference in Guwahati, Chief Minister Sarma released findings from a Special Investigation Team (SIT) report, alleging that Gaurav Gogoi, his British wife Elizabeth Colburn, and a Pakistani national, Ali Tauqeer Sheikh, share "deep links".

Assam Congress president Gaurav Gogoi immediately dismissed the allegations as "mindless and bogus" and termed Sarma's two-and-a-half-hour press conference as "superflop", claiming that the Chief Minister provided no evid...