Doors of BJP open for Bhupen Borah after exit from Congress: Assam CM

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday said the doors of the BJP were open for Bhupen Borah, hours after the former state Congress chief resigned from the party.

Sarma also said that if Borah joins the BJP, he would try to get him elected from a "safe seat".

Borah sent his resignation letter to Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge earlier in the day, dealing a blow to the party ahead of the Assam assembly polls.

In the letter, he claimed that he was being "ignored" by the party leadership and not being accorded his due in the state unit.

Borah was the president of the Assam Congress unit from 2021 to 2025, and was replaced by Gaurav Gogoi last year. He has been a two-time legislator in Assam.

Sarma said Borah was the "last Hindu leader" in the Congress without a family background father or mother not occupying a ministerial post or being an MLA.

''His resignation carries the symbolic message that in the Congress, no one from a normal family can prosper. Congress doe