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Fake Passports, Broken Timelines, Dubious IDs: Congress’s Attack On Himanta Biswa Sarma Crumbles In No Time

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The Commune
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In the middle of a heated Assam election, the Congress party tried to hit Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma with a blockbuster allegation: that his wife Riniki Bhuyan Sarma holds three foreign passports and is linked to a shell company in the United States holding assets worth Rs 52,000 crore. Within days, glaring inconsistencies in the documents brandished at the press conferences have turned the spotlight back on Congress itself.

What Congress Alleged at the Press Conference

At a press briefing in Guwahati on 5 April 2026, Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera and MP Gaurav Gogoi unveiled what they claimed was evidence of a massive offshore scam.

They made three core charges:

Multiple passports and foreign IDs – They alleged that Riniki Bhuyan Sarma holds three passports, from Egypt, Antigua & Barbuda and India in violation of Indian law.

They displayed photocopies or screenshots of an Egyptian passport, an Antigua & Barbuda passport, and a UAE “Golden Card” ID, claiming these showed undisclosed foreign citizenships and assets.

US shell company with Rs 52,000 crore in assets – Khera and Gogoi said a company named “HrinikiNandi LLC” in Wyoming belonged to the Sarma family and controlled 3.4 billion dollars (about Rs 52,000 crore) worth of assets.

They highlighted the name itself: “H” for Himanta, “Riniki” for his wife, and “Nandi” for their son Nandil, arguing that this was a family vehicle for parking money abroad.

Undeclared overseas properties in Dubai/UAE – Congress leaders also pointed to property “title deeds” and IDs linked to the UAE, claiming these proved hidden real‑estate holdings not declared in official affidavits.

Based on this, Congress demanded explanations from the CM, asked whether he had informed Indian authorities about alleged foreign passports, and framed the entire episode as a “Rs 52,000‑crore scam” involving his family.

What Public Records and Basic Forensics Actually Show

When journalists, independent researchers, and the Assam government started checking the documents, several hard facts emerged that badly undercut the Congress narrative.

The timeline problem: HrinikiNandi LLC

Wyoming Secretary of State records show HrinikiNandi LLC was incorporated on 3 April 2026 at 10:33 am local time.

Khera’s press conference showcasing this company as proof of a long‑running scam took place on 5 April 2026.

Congress’s own “minutes” document notes that the same company is shown as a member at a board meeting dated months before its official incorporation – a chronological impossibility.

In other words, there is no public record of HrinikiNandi LLC’s existence until two days before the allegations were made – yet it appears in Congress’s paperwork as if it had been operating long before.

The filing also lists Andrew Pierce of “Wyoming LLC Attorney” as organiser – a professional agent whose business is to register companies for anyone willing to pay a few hundred dollars online. That confirms how easy it is for any third party, not necessarily the Sarma family, to create such a vehicle.

Basic Document Errors in the “Three Passports”

Multiple media outlets have flagged extensive inconsistencies in the images Congress displayed. Key problems include:

Name and photo issues – Across different pages, the surname oscillates between “Sarma” and “Sharma”, even though her official surname is “Sarma” in Indian records.

The photograph used appears to be a publicly available picture, not a secure, original passport‑office image.

UAE ID card (Golden Card) – A standard UAE ID number encodes the year of birth in the second block. For a 1973 birth year, this should read “1973”. In the contested ID, it shows “1996”, which does not match the printed date of birth.

The card text lists nationality as Egypt, but the machine‑readable zone (MRZ) at the bottom encodes the country code “ATG”, which is for Antigua and Barbuda – a completely different country.

Antigua & Barbuda passport – The printed expiry date is 25 August 2031, while the MRZ line encodes the expiry year as 2025.

Fact‑checkers note that genuine passports and their MRZs are generated together, so such a mismatch is a textbook sign of tampering.

Egyptian passport – The visible passport number on the main page is A20799883, but the MRZ line reads A207998834, with an extra digit.

The English text lists nationality as “Egyptian,” but the Arabic text references Beheira, which is a state in Egypt, not a nationality.

Netizens and media outlets describe these as “glaring inconsistencies” that render the documents highly suspect.

The Title Deed and QR Code

The “title deed” shown as evidence of Dubai property also raises red flags:

The QR code, when checked by journalists and online sleuths, does not lead to any verifiable government record and instead throws up a generic image‑search‑type result.

Formatting and language issues in the deed further undermine its credibility, according to the same analyses.

The Ashraf Hussein ID trail

Internet users quickly linked one of the ID images used in the political material to an earlier “lost ID – please help”–type post, relating to a person named Ashraf Abdelkader Abdelsamad Hussein with a UAE ID number 784‑1996‑5557498‑8.

This strongly suggests that at least part of the visual material was scraped from social media and repurposed – which again supports the view that these are assembled digital composites, not authentic source documents.

Sarma’s Response: “Fake Documents” and the Pakistan Angle

Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma has flatly denied the existence of any foreign passports for his wife and called the entire dossier a fabrication. He has announced that his wife Riniki Bhuyan Sarma has filed an FIR against Pawan Khera over the allegations. He also stated that he intends to pursue civil and criminal defamation cases, arguing that presenting allegedly forged documents to influence an election could attract severe penalties under provisions corresponding to former IPC sections 420 and 468, and even stricter election‑related clauses.

Sarma has also alleged that a Pakistani social‑media group supplied the material used by Congress and that Pakistan‑based TV shows have recently run several debates openly hoping for a Congress win in Assam.

Later in the day, Sarma also shared a video recording of how they identified the actual owners of the two Dubai apartments cited in the Congress’ allegations – Md. Ahmad and Fatima Sulaiman, revealing that the Congress sourced the documents from Scribd, a claim that can be independently verified.

For a very long time, Himanta Biswa Sarma has been attacking the Congress and exposing their lies and connections, especially those of Gaurav Gogoi and his wife to Pakistan. The Congress seems to have failed yet again to push Sarma to a corner with their lacklustre ‘project’ that unravelled even before it could make any impact.

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