A Congress leader from Karbi Anglong has filed a police complaint against Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, accusing him of making controversial statements that questioned whether opposition party members were born from their mothers.
Charisma Rongpipi, Media Chairperson of the Karbi Anglong District Congress Committee and a member of the Scheduled Tribe community, lodged the complaint at Diphu Police Station on Wednesday, October 8. The complaint relates to remarks made by the Chief Minister during the launch of the Orunodoi 3.0 welfare scheme at Khanapara on October 7.
According to the complaint, while defending his government’s welfare scheme against criticism from opposition parties, Sarma reportedly said in Assamese: “I think sometime about the people in the Congress Party… that are they born from their mother’s womb? …If someone is born from their mother’s womb… then showing respect to that mother will never be a crime, will never be wrong, will never be sin.” 
Rongpipi, 42, alleged that these words directly attacked the dignity of Scheduled Tribe women affiliated with the Congress party. “These extremely derogatory words of the accused person, which have been widely circulated, have reduced the sacred act of motherhood in our ST community to a tool of political ridicule and casteist derogatory slur,” the complaint said.
The complaint further claims that the Chief Minister’s comments have caused “immense personal distress, including sleeplessness, anxiety, and fear of community backlash” among tribal women Congress workers.
It also mentions a pattern of similar remarks by Sarma, including a February 2022 incident where he allegedly questioned Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s parentage and April-May 2025 panchayat election statements where he reportedly suggested that women had to compromise their chastity under Congress rule to secure jobs.
