Lok Sabha MP Pradyut Bordoloi, who resigned from the Congress on Tuesday, joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday. Bordoloi, a senior Congress leader, joined the saffron party at a ceremony in New Delhi, attended by Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and several BJP MPs.
Sarma welcomed Bordoloi to the BJP, saying "No self-respecting individual can stay in Congress today, particularly in the case of Assam." The BJP will finalize its candidates list for the upcoming Assembly polls today and will try to accommodate Bordoloi in a seat.
Bordoloi said he joined the BJP to do something better for the people of Assam and to help make the state one of the best in the country. He had served as a minister in the Tarun Gogoi governments from 2001 to 2016 and is a two-time MP from the Nagaon Lok Sabha seat.
Bordoloi's son, Prateek, has been nominated as the Congress candidate from the Margherita seat in the coming Assembly election. However, Bordoloi has asked his son to take his own decision about what to do without being influenced by his move.
