Assam CM Himanta Sarma backs woman’s paternity case against ex-Uttarakhand Minister

GUWAHATI Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has backed a woman’s demand for justice in a 23-year-old paternity row involving former Uttarakhand Minister and Congress leader Harak Singh Rawat. https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/assam/ https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/uttarakhand/ https://www.thehindu.com/topic/indian-national-congress/ In a social media post on Wednesday (November 11, 2026), the Chief Minister said he had met Ms. Indira Dewri, also known as Jenny, who claims that Mr. Rawat raped and impregnated her in 2003.

Condemning the treatment Ms. Dewri — who hails from Sadiya in Assam’s Tinsukia district — had received, Mr. Sarma wrote: “Yesterday (November 10, 2026), I met Jenny, a resident of Assam. What a man named Harak Singh Rawat from Uttarakhand did to her is extremely wrong and reprehensible.

No one should have to suffer the kind of cruelty she endured. I stand firmly with her in this fight for justice.” In the meeting, Ms.