Assam MP Pradyut Bordoloi quits Congress

GUWAHATI

Less than a period aft its erstwhile State president Bhupen Kumar Borah switched implicit to the Bharatiya Janata Party, the Assam Congress mislaid 1 of its 3 MPs connected Tuesday.

Pradyut Bordoloi, who represented the Congress from the Nagaon Lok Sabha seat, submitted his resignation to enactment president Mallikarjun Kharge. The latter’s bureau said it did not person the letter.

However, Subrata Borah, the All India Congress Committee successful complaint of Assam for the OBC wing, said Mr. Bordoloi’s resignation was precise unfortunate. “He is the seniormost and astir experienced person of the Assam Congress astatine present,” Mr. Borah wrote connected a societal media platform, adding that State enactment president Gaurav Gogoi and AICC wide caput successful complaint of Assam Jitendra Singh went to Mr. Bordoloi’s residence to dissuade him.

Mr. Bordoloi was reportedly feeling sidelined successful the enactment for months. The contiguous trigger was the alleged humiliation by Mr. Gogoi implicit the enactment of the campaigner for the Laharighat Assembly constituency. Laharighat, successful cardinal Assam’s Morigaon district, is simply a conception of the Nagaon Lok Sabha spot that Mr. Bordoloi represents.

“With an overwhelming consciousness of sadness today, I hereby tender my resignation from each posts, privileges, and the superior rank of the Indian National Congress,” his resignation missive read.

Two days ago, Mr. Bordoloi wrote different missive to Mr. Jitendra Singh, outlining wherefore helium was not successful favour of renominating Asif Mohammad Nazar from Laharighat.

The MP alleged that helium and an subordinate were attacked by a radical of equipped men successful Nagaon district’s Dhing country successful April 2025. He said the radical was led by Emdadul Islam, a adjacent subordinate of Mr. Nazar. 

There are speculations that Mr. Bordoloi could articulation the Bharatiya Janata Party and contention the Assembly election. This has enactment a question people connected the destiny of his son, Prateek Bordoloi, who is the Congress campaigner from the Margherita Assembly spot successful eastbound Assam.

Almost simultaneously with the elder Bordoloi, Mankachar MLA Mohammed Aminul Islam resigned from the All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF). The party, however, said it had suspended Mr. Islam from its rank for six years for “misconduct and gross violation” of its principles.

Mr. Islam is the 4th MLA who resigned from the AIUDF successful poll-bound Assam. The others are Karim Uddin Barbhuiya (Sonai seat), Abdul Aziz (Badarpur), and Zakir Hussain Laskar (Hailakandi).