India, Feb. 17 -- Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi on Monday said that the Assam government can conduct any probe it wants amid a controversy over his wife's alleged links to a Pakistani national as claimed by state chief minister Himanta Sarma.

Gaurav Gogoi also said that the allegations were part of the BJP's "diversionary tactics" as it is afraid of losing the assembly election in the state next year.

Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and the BJP have also been attacking Gaurav Gogoi, the deputy leader of the Congress in Lok Sabha, over his British wife Elizabeth Colburn's alleged ISI links.

"...People of Assam saw the chief minister's face yesterday. Look at his eyes, it was clear that something was amiss. There is something that is...