Guwahati: Former Assam Congress chief and former Rajya Sabha MP Ripun Bora on Sunday resigned from the party and joined the Trinamool Congress (TMC).
He joined Mamata Banerjee led the party in the presence of TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee.
Ripun Bora took to Twitter to announce his joining. “From today I have started my new political journey!” he wrote.
While thanking the party in his resignation letter to Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, Ripun Bora mentioned the details as to why he was “compelled to take such a harsh decision of resigning from the party.”
He wrote, “…Instead of fighting unitedly and aggressively to prevent BJP at this critical juncture of the country, the leaders of this grand old party at different levels are fighting with each other for their vested interest.”
He added, “After a devastating defeat in Assam Assembly elections in 2016, you gave me the responsibility of Assam PCC chief. Since then I have been devoting tremendous hardwork to revive the party… But due to continuous inner fighting by a section of senior most leaders of the Assam PCC, people lost faith in us and did not give us the mandate to form the government.”
“I am very pained to inform you that it is an open secret in Assam that instead of fighting against BJP, a section of senior most leaders of Assam PCC have been maintaining a secret understanding with the BJP government,” he added.
