India, Feb. 13 -- Continuing the back and forth with Congress leader Gaurav Gogoi, Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday criticised the Jorhat Lok Sabha MP for participating in an open meeting with Pakistan high commissioner Abdul Basit in 2015.

Sarma also sought to link the MP's marriage to a British citizen, to what he described as "a growing focus on sensitive defence matters" in his parliamentary questions. The chief minister did not name Gogoi in his post on X, but put a photo in which Gogoi sat next to Basit at an event.

The two politicians have been targeting each other following Sarma's exit from the Congress in 2015 when then chief minister Tarun Gogoi started promoting his son Gaurav Gogoi as his political heir....