Former Assam Congress chief Ripun Bora, who had recently resigned as state Trinamool Congress president, returned to the grand old party on Sunday.
AICC state general secretary Jitendra Singh welcomed Bora back to the party at the start of an Extended Executive Committee meeting in Charaideo.
Besides Singh, state Congress president Bhupen Kumar Borah, Leader of Opposition Debabrata Saikia and other leaders were present on the occasion.
“On behalf of the AICC, I welcome Ripun Bora back into the game. It is a ‘ghar wapsi’ (homecoming) for him,” Singh said.
He maintained that though Bora has joined TMC and become its state president, Congress is in his DNA.
“We are happy that he has returned without any conditions. He is with us as a party member,” Singh added.
Bora, who was happy to have returned to the Congress, said, “For whatever reasons, I left the Congress for two-and-a-half years. But the state and the country demand that the BJP be uprooted from power, and the Congress is the only party that can do that.”
He maintained that staying in the TMC would only lead to a split in the opposition vote, which will help the saffron party and hence decided to return to his former party.
“People of Assam are fed up with the BJP’s misrule. We will all work together to further strengthen the Congress and expose the corruption and communalism of the ruling alliance before the people,” Bora added.
State Congress chief Borah said the return of the former leader has been facilitated after discussion with the AICC and he hopes his return will further strengthen the party.
Several senior officials of the state TMC also joined the Congress along with Bora.
Bora, a former state cabinet minister and also a former MP who quit the Congress in April 2022, quit the Trinamool Congress on September 1, alleging that the people of the northeastern state consider it a “regional party” of West Bengal and are “not ready to accept” it as their own.
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First published: September 8, 2024 | 20:24 IS
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