Assam Agriculture Minister Rockeybul Hussain claimed that the Election Commission team did not state the exact reason for conducting the search.
Assam Agriculture Minister Rockybul Hussain has filed a police complaint against an 'Election Commission Election Expenditure' team for allegedly defaming him by searching his vehicles.
Mr Hussain said that his wife and he had come to his house in Panjabari area in Guwahati at around 6:30 PM when the Election Commission team, which was waiting there, asked them and Mr Hussain's security forces in another car to step out of their vehicles so that they could conduct a search operation.
The Minister claimed that the team did not state the exact reason for conducting the search.
The minister said that the Election Commission team was waiting when his wife and he had come to his house in Panjabari area in Guwahati at around 6:30 PM.
"A person of the team told me 'there is a reason' for doing so. The team came in a car with a sticker of 'Expenditure Observer On Election Duty Kamrup Metropolitan District'".
"After the search was over, the officer who claimed to be from the Gujarat cadre, said 'I am satisfied' but refused to give me a report that the search was conducted," Mr Hussain claimed.
"The search is a political conspiracy as the BJP is afraid that Congress will win the Assembly elections again," he told reporters.
"As soon as the Election Expenditure' team left, my house was raided by an Income Tax team. We have never seen I-T raids being conducted in the night but only in the day time", the minister said.
"There is a political conspiracy and an attempt has been made to defame me and the good work of Congress. I and Congress are not scared by such back door threats using the machinery. We will win the elections again", he said outside Dispur police station after filing his complaint there.
Without naming anyone, the minister blamed a "one-time colleague who recently joined the BJP" for the raids.