'Hindu baiter': CM Himanta slams Rahul Gandhi over Manusmriti row

Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma slams Rahul Gandhi over Manusmriti comment. Photo credit: ANINEW DELHI: Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday joined the escalating political row over Rahul Gandhi’s remarks on the Manusmriti, accusing the Congress leader of using women’s rights as a 'smokescreen' to target Hinduism and challenging him to support a Uniform Civil Code (UCC).Sarma, in a post on X, said, “Rahul Gandhi is NO champion of women’s rights. He is simply a Hindu baiter, using the cause of women’s empowerment as a convenient smokescreen to target and discredit Hindu Dharma.”The Assam chief minister’s remarks came after Gandhi, during an interaction with girl students in Pune on Saturday, criticised what he called a “Manusmriti mindset” and urged women to “smash pa