India, April 24 -- Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday alleged the Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, was trying to divide Hindus based on castes. Sarma said that the terrorists who perpetrated the attack on tourists in Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam just wanted to know the religion of the victims.

Addressing a panchayat poll rally in Hojai, Sarma said there was no room for caste-based politics in the country at the moment.

"But the terrorists did not ask the caste, they asked only whether the target was a Hindu or not. There is no room for caste politics. 'Ek rahenge toh safe rahenge' (we will be safe if we stay united)," PTI quoted Sarma as saying.

Sarma claimed that terrorists earlier didn't ask abou...