Ahead of Arvind Kejriwal’s first political rally in Assam on April 2, chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Friday dared his Delhi counterpart to talk in opposition to him that “Himanta Biswa Sarma is corrupt”. Kejriwal will go to Assam together with Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann. Reportedly, Kejriwal within the Delhi meeting had stated that there are instances in opposition to Sarma in different states.

“Yet, I haven’t filed any defamation case. Is there any case against me in any part of the country? I want to file a defamation case, but Arvind Kejriwal like a coward spoke inside the assembly. So let him come to Assam on April 2 and say that, there is a case against Himanta Biswa Sarma, I will sue him rightly,” Sarma instructed reporters.

“Speak against me a single word that I am corrupt and next day, I am going to file a defamation case, the same thing I have done against Manish Sisodia,” the Assam CM Sarma added.

Sarma clarified that there is no such thing as a case in opposition to him in any a part of the nation.

“You (Arvind Kejriwal) should not speak against somebody in Delhi assembly where you know I am not there to defend. So what is the case against me? So somebody has misled all the people that there is some case against me. In entire India, there is no case against me, except for some cases filed by Congress people in various courts” he added.

Hitting again Rajesh Sharma, AAP’s northeast in cost, stated, “The whole country knows what kind of party BJP is. The country has recognized the anti-democracy people who are doing horse-trading by bringing MLAs of Maharashtra to Guwahati.”

The Assam chief minister’s warning comes on a day when the Gujarat excessive court docket fined Kejriwal ₹25,000 for asking Gujarat University to disclose particulars of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s schooling diploma.