Kolkata: Defection from Congress to Trinamool Congress in Assam remained unabated after Sushmita Dev, former Congress Rajya Sabha MP and Congress chief Ripun Bora on Sunday joined Trinamool Congress in presence of TMC national secretary Abhishek Banerjee in Kolkata.
Taking to Twitter, Bora said, “From today I have started my new political journey!”
In his resignation letter to Congress national chief Sonia Gandhi, Bora said that he was ‘compelled’ to take such a decision.
“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 has been maintaining a secret understanding with the BJP government,” read the part of his resignation letter.
He also wrote that his ‘conscience’ doesn’t allow him to continue with Congress after a ‘secret’ understanding with BJP.
State Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said that the former Congress Rajya Sabha MP knew that he will ‘not’ get a ticket to contest the polls for which giving ‘allegations’ against the party defected to the Trinamool Congress.
It can be noted that after Sushmita Dev, Ripun Bora is a big ‘catch’ for the TMC in Assam. TMC had sent Sushmita to Rajya Sabha and is currently the Rajya Sabha MP of TMC.
