MP Pradyut Bordoloi joins BJP after quitting Congress ahead of Assam polls

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MP Pradyut Bordoloi (centre) with Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma and Assam BJP president Dilip Saikia successful New Delhi connected March 18, 2026. Photo: Screen drawback via X/@ANI.

After resigning from the Congress enactment up of the Assam Assembly elections, sitting MP Pradyut Bordoloi joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) successful the beingness of Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and Assam BJP president Dilip Saikia successful New Delhi connected Wednesday (March 18, 2026).

Mr. Bordoloi clarified that the resignation stemmed from “multiple issues” arsenic opposed to a singular summons allocation for the Assam Assembly elections.

Mr. 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.

With Bordoloi’s exit, the Assam Congress mislaid 1 of its 3 MPs.

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.

(With ANI inputs)

Published - March 18, 2026 01:05 p.m. IST

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