Senior Congress chief and Lok Sabha MP Pradyut Bordoloi on Wednesday joined the Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP), claiming he had confronted humiliation inside the occasion after supporting Congress chief Shashi Tharoor, amid a collection of high-profile defections forward of the Assam Meeting elections.
Bordoloi, a two-time MP from Assam’s Nagaon constituency, formally joined the BJP in New Delhi within the presence of Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and state BJP president Dilip Saikia, a day after resigning from the Congress.
Chatting with reporters, Bordoloi mentioned he had been feeling “suffocated and humiliated” inside the occasion for the previous two years, including that his troubles started after he supported Shashi Tharoor inside the Congress.
“I’ve been feeling humiliated. It began after I supported Dr Shashi Tharoor, then I used to be shunted out from each discussion board contained in the occasion,” Bordoloi mentioned.
The senior chief, who had been related to the Congress since 1975, submitted his resignation to occasion president Mallikarjun Kharge on Tuesday night. He had additionally served as chairman of the Congress manifesto committee for the upcoming Assam Meeting elections.
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Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma mentioned BJP nationwide president Nitin Nabin had accredited Bordoloi’s induction into the occasion.
“In the present day, sitting Congress MP Pradyut Bordoloi has joined the BJP. Our state president Dilip Saikia has welcomed him to the occasion fold,” Sarma instructed reporters after the induction ceremony.
Sarma mentioned Bordoloi’s entry would strengthen the BJP in Assam and assist advance Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s imaginative and prescient of a “Viksit Bharat, Viksit Assam”. He added that the state occasion management would advocate a ticket for Bordoloi within the April 9 Meeting polls.
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A two-term MP and four-time MLA who additionally served as an Assam cupboard minister, Bordoloi mentioned his choice to give up the Congress was pushed by “a number of points” and chronic humiliation inside the occasion.
“For the final two years, I’ve been dealing with humiliation and feeling remoted inside the Congress. Whereas becoming a member of the BJP, I’ve made it clear that I’ll proceed to work with my head held excessive for the sake of the Assamese folks,” he mentioned.
Bordoloi additionally referred to an Assam Congress Central Election Committee assembly the place he alleged that occasion chief Imran Masood dismissed his claims a few candidate’s alleged felony hyperlinks as “fabricated”, which he mentioned deeply damage him.
“The APCC president current there remained silent. This damage me so much,” he instructed reporters.
The event comes weeks after former Assam Congress chief Bhupen Kumar Borah additionally resigned from the occasion and joined the BJP in February.
Sarma claimed that extra Congress leaders could swap sides within the coming days, asserting that “no particular person with self-respect can any longer keep within the Congress”.
Meeting elections for all 126 constituencies in Assam might be held in a single part on April 9, with the counting of votes scheduled for Might 4. The ruling BJP-led NDA might be looking for a 3rd consecutive time period, whereas the Congress is trying to return to energy within the northeastern state.
