Guwahati, May 28 -- Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi on Wednesday rejected Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma's allegations linking his wife, Elizabeth Colburn, to Pakistan's intelligence agency, the ISI, calling the accusations politically motivated and baseless.

Responding to a journalist's question, Gogoi accused the ruling BJP of weaponizing defamation as a political strategy. "When an entire party builds its politics on defamation, how many defamation cases can one possibly file? Their whole machinery survives on ruining reputations. If I file one case today, they'll hand me two more reasons tomorrow," he said.

Gogoi described the allegations as absurd and compared them to the plot of a "C-grade Bollywood movie," ridiculing the Chief...