Bhupen Borah quits Congress, joins BJP ahead of Assam assembly polls
India Today
Borah said he had expected introspection within the Congress after his resignation but felt hurt by the party leadership's response. His switch comes weeks before Assam heads into assembly elections scheduled for March–April.
Former Assam Congress chief Bhupen Kumar Borah on Sunday joined the ruling BJP in the presence of its state unit president Dilip Saikia here.Borah became a BJP member during a function held at the Assam BJP headquarters 'Vajpayee Bhawan'.
Along with him, former Congress leaders Sanju Bora, Rajesh Kumar Joshi, Kangkan Das, Gagan Chandra Bora and more than a dozen other workers from the opposition party, too, joined the BJP.
Borah had resigned on February 16, with the Congress high command not accepting it and senior leaders rushing to his residence, while Rahul Gandhi also spoke to him.
He had asked for time to reconsider his decision, but the next day, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma went to his residence and announced that he would join the BJP on February 22.
The 126-member Assam assembly is expected to go to polls in March-April.
Borah, after joining the saffron party, said: "I didn't resign from the Congress thinking that I would join the BJP. I resigned thinking that a self-introspection would take place about the wrongs in the Congress, and expected a promise that it would be corrected."
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