Former Assam Congress chief Ripun Bora on Sunday resigned from the get together, alleging that a number of leaders of it had been working in connivance with the BJP within the state, significantly with Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma.
Bora, who joined the TMC quickly after he stop the Congress, stated in his resignation letter to Congress chief Sonia Gandhi that infighting inside the grand previous get together helped BJP and compelled him to depart regardless of having been a member since pupil days in 1976.
“I’m very pained to tell you that it’s an open secret in Assam that as a substitute of combating towards BJP, a piece of senior most leaders of Assam PCC (Pradesh Congress Committee) have been sustaining secret understanding with BJP govt primarily with the Chief Minister,” Bora stated in his resignation letter.
The previous state minister additionally alleged that a few of the Congress get together leaders “performed function in such a fashion which paved the best way for the BJP to win each the Rajya Sabha seats” from Assam not too long ago.
Mr Bora was renominated by the Congress for the elections to the Higher Home of Parliament.
He, as a joint candidate of the opposition events in Assam, had unsuccessfully contested the not too long ago held Rajya Sabha elections.
Mr Bora claimed that he, after assuming cost as APCC chief in 2016, was capable of deliver the Congress to a place the place folks anticipated it to kind the state authorities in 2021 state polls.
“However attributable to steady interior battle by a piece of senior most leaders of Assam PCC, folks misplaced religion on us and didn’t give mandate,” he stated.
Mr Bora additionally acknowledged that as a substitute of being united in combating the BJP which is a “severe risk to the democracy, structure and secularism and economic system of our nation”, Congress leaders at completely different ranges are “combating one another for his or her vested pursuits”.
“This has given the BJP ample benefits to develop in each nook and nook in a single hand and one other, demoralising tens of millions of Congress staff of the nation,” Mr Bora wrote, including that the leaders in Assam have been “not an exception”.
“Beneath this backdrop, my conscience doesn’t enable to proceed in Congress get together the place the get together’s curiosity and beliefs are being compromised in favour of BJP for some vested curiosity of few leaders,” he additionally added.
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