Who is more corrupt, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma or even Rahul Gandhi?

April 16, 2026

We read this story in our childhood. The moral of this story ‘if you lie frequently, you will lose trust’.

Once, there was a mischievous shepherd who lived near a dense forest. Bored with the monotonous task of tending his cattle, he decided to have some fun at the expense of the village farmers working nearby. One day he ran towards the village crying, ‘Tiger! Tiger! A tiger is attacking my cattle!’. The villagers, who were hardworking and caring, immediately dropped their tools and rushed to help him. When they arrived at the field, they found the shepherd boy laughing loudly —there was no tiger, he was just fooling the villagers. The villagers were annoyed and went back to their work.

A few days later, the shepherd boy played the same trick again. He shouted, ‘Help! Tiger! A tiger’. Again, the villagers rushed to his aid, and again, they were met with laughter. They warned him never to tell such dangerous lies again.

One afternoon, as the sun began to set, a real tiger stepped out of the forest and towards the cattle. Terrified, shepherd boy screamed for help, shouting, ‘Tiger! Please help! This time it's real!’. The villagers heard his cries, but this time, they smiled and continued working, thinking, ‘He is trying to trick us again. We will not be fooled this time’. Because nobody came to help, the tiger killed few cattle and killed the shepherd.

Same trick is being used by congress leader RaGa. Before every assembly elections in a BJP ruled state, RaGa alleges that this BJP state government is the ‘most corrupt’ in India. In 2022, RaGa blamed Bommai ruled BJP government is the most corrupt in India as 40% commission govt. He continued repeating this allegation in April 2022, September 2022 and October 2022 without any proof. The strategy is to keep attacking political rivals without proof till ‘a lie becomes truth using propaganda’.

Now congress is ruling Karnataka since 2023 but they not just failed to produce any corruption cases against BJP’s Bommai government but never attempted to expose past BJP government corruption. Rather congress government is busy making money with new corruption every months. MUDA scam, Valmiki Corporation scam, Excise department scam etc. are congress era scams. These are not just media reported corruptions but litigations are going on these cases and CM Siddaramaiah is facing criminal charges in MUDA scam.

Congress leader RaGa again tried this trick in Madhya Pradesh election. RaGa consistently targeted the BJP government in MP, led by former Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, calling it a ‘center of corruption’, particularly in the lead-up to the 2023 state assembly elections. RaGa gain now trying to create the same lie with Assam BJP CM Himanta Biswa Sarma. RaGa now says Himanta government is ‘most corrupt’ in run up to Assam 2026 election.

RaGa’s behaviour is similar to the village shepherd boy who made lot of noise to promote his fake narrative. It worked in Karnataka partly because of massive freebie schemes announced by congress but it failed in MP and will fail in Assam. Everyday is not Sunday. RaGa has many legal cases against him running in judiciary – National Herald media scam, foreign dual citizen scam, Modi surname defamation case etc. and he should focus about this judicial bail cases instead of calling somebody else corrupt.