Suspended Congress MLA Kamalakhya Dey Purkayastha said he will join the Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday at 8 AM, stating that Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma decided the timing, keeping in mind the Rajya Sabha elections.
He also remembered his father, the former Assam CM, Tarun Gogoi and said, "I am thankful to my late father Tarun Gogoi who taught me what it means to be an Assamese and a Congressman."
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday characterised Bhupen Bora's resignation from the Congress as a "separation" of the party from Hindu society, labelling the former Congress leader as the last recognised Hindu face within the state's primary opposition.
Congress leader Akhilesh Prasad Singh slammed Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma over his remark calling former Congress leader Bhupen Borah the "last Hindu leader" in the state party, accusing Sarma of self-positioning as the ultimate Hindu leader post-Borah's potential defection.
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday asked Congress Assam Pradesh President and MP, Gaurav Gogoi, to answer to his wife's alleged links to Pakistani national Ali Tauqeer Sheikh, calling it a "matter of serious national security."
Congress Assam President and MP Gaurav Gogoi on Sunday refuted the allegations made by the Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma against his wife Elizabeth Colburn Gogoi, calling it a "super flop" press conference.
Kharge described the Assam government as "traitors" and criticised PM Modi's remarks, questioning how the BJP, which governs both Assam and the Centre, could blame the opposition for its own failures.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday slammed the Congress in poll-bound in Assam, alleging that the party was becoming party to the conspiracy that could have made the state a part of erstwhile East Pakistan and that freedom fighter Gopinath Bordoloi, who later became the first Chief
Assam Legislative Assembly Deputy Speaker and senior BJP leader Numal Momin claimed that the BJP government will be in Assam till 2047 and called Congress a "rotten egg."