- By PTI
- Fri, 17 Oct 2025 05:42 PM (IST)
- Source:PTI
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday said Zubeen Garg's family and the people of Assam have the right to know what happened to him in Singapore.
“The sooner the truth comes out, the better in Zubeen Garg's case, as the family needs closure,” Gandhi said, after visiting the singer's family at their Kahilipara residence here.
It is the duty of the Assam government to “transparently investigate and tell the family exactly what happened in Singapore”, the former Congress president said.
“The family has lost Zubeen, and they only want the truth to come out,” Gandhi said. Garg died while swimming in the sea in Singapore on September 19.
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Zubeen Garg, 52, died in Singapore while swimming in the sea on September 19. He was cremated with state honours on September 23 near Guwahati. The Assam government formed an SIT that is investigating the circumstances that led to his death.
Gogoi had on Thursday visited the site, where Garg was cremated, to review the arrangements for Gandhi's visit.
Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma had on Thursday said that Congress MP Rahul Gandhi's visit to pay tribute to cultural icon Zubeen Garg would be after 28 days of his death, but it is still 'better late than never'.
'We had expected a senior Congress leader like Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi or someone else to be present at the singer's cremation," the chief minister had said at a press conference here. As Gandhi is coming to pay his tribute to the singer, 'we welcome his visit to the state', Sarma added.
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