A day after quitting the Congress, Nagaon MP Pradyut Bordoloi joined the BJP in New Delhi in the presence of Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, Assam BJP president Dilip Saikia and other leaders of the saffron party. Welcoming him to the BJP fold, CM Sarma said the BJP workers will now have to take the responsibility of making Bordoloi victorious in the upcoming Assembly polls. The Chief Minister said that Assam Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) Nabajyoti Talukdar, who also quit Congress yesterday, and others will also join the BJP in Guwahati in the next 2-3 days. “No leader with self-respect can remain in the Congress and many such leaders want to join the BJP,” he said, adding that Leader of Opposition in Assam Assembly Debabrata Saikia and Ripun Bora would also leave the Congress after the elections. Sarma, however, evaded a direct reply on whether Bordoloi will get a ministerial berth if he wins the election. Bordoloi said that quitting the Congress and joining the BJP was one of the most difficult decisions of his life. “I had to go through a lot in the Congress and felt suffocated. I was sidelined and humiliated in the Congress,” he said, while heaping praise on CM Sarma. On the Congress giving ticket to Bordoloi’s son, Prateek, from the Margherita Assembly seat, he said that his son is free to take his own decisions.
MP Pradyut Bordoloi Joins BJP in New Delhi
