"I stand firmly with her": Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma extends support to Jenny in Harak Singh Rawat case

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Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday expressed support for Assam resident Indira Devi, alias Jenny, in her decades-old paternity dispute involving former Uttarakhand minister Harak Singh Rawat, describing the alleged treatment she faced as “extremely wrong and reprehensible”.

Guwahati (Assam) [India], November 11 (ANI): Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday expressed support for Assam resident Indira Devi, alias Jenny, in her decades-old paternity dispute involving former Uttarakhand minister Harak Singh Rawat, describing the alleged treatment she faced as “extremely wrong and reprehensible”.In a post on X, Sarma said he had met Jenny and assured her of his support in her fight for justice.“Yesterday 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.

Jenny has demanded a fresh DNA test to establish the paternity of her son and secure his legal entitlement to his father’s name.The ‘Jenny episode’ is a decades-old political controversy in Uttarakhand that first surfaced in 2003. Jenny had given birth to a child at a government hospital in Dehradun in June 2003 and had claimed that Rawat was the child’s father.The then Chief Minister N.D. Tiwari had ordered a CBI inquiry into the matter.

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