Guwahati : Sitting MP Pradyut Bordoloi joined the Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday. Bordoloi joined the BJP in the presence of Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and state BJP president Dilip Saikia. Sarma said, today the sitting Congress MP has joined BJP. As you know, Pradyut Bordoloi is a senior MP. His joining BJP will definitely strengthen BJP.
He added that the party’s national leadership had approved Bordoloi’s induction a day earlier and pointed out that the MP still has three years left in his current term. The switch comes less than a month after former Assam Congress president Bhupen Kumar Borah crossed over to the BJP, deepening the crisis for the opposition party in the state. The Congress has lost one of its three Lok Sabha MPs from Assam, raising concerns as the state heads into elections.
A two-time MP from Nagaon and a former minister in the Tarun Gogoi government, had sent a brief resignation letter to Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge. With an overwhelming sense of sadness today, I hereby tender my resignation from all posts, privileges and the primary membership of the Indian National Congress, he wrote.
AICC general secretary in-charge of Assam Jitendra Singh said, The Congress blood runs in the veins of Bordoloi. We are members of one family and will remain so. State Congress chief Gaurav Gogoi alleged that attempts were being made to politically target Bordoloi, saying such developments were being amplified to malign him.
Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra indicated that Bordoloi’s exit was linked to internal disagreements. He was unhappy over ticket distribution. This was unfortunate, she said. Sources within the party also pointed to tensions over candidate selection, including Bordoloi’s objections to the possible renomination of certain leaders in constituencies under his influence.
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