Working President of the Assam Congress Rana Goswami is expected to join the BJP
Leading member of the Congress, Rana Goswami, left the party on Wednesday. He left the party soon after and made his way to New Delhi, where he is probably going to join the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
This news follows rumors for many days that he will step down from his position as acting president of the state legislature. He served as Jorhat’s previous MLA.
He departed for New Delhi shortly after delivering the resignation letter to KC Venugopal, the general secretary of the Congress organization. The reports claim that Goswami would meet with JP Nadda, the head of the BJP, and join the saffron party.
When questioned on Tuesday about the rumors that Goswami was switching parties, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that “he is a powerful leader of the Congress and if he joins the BJP, I will welcome it” but that he had no knowledge of the rumors.
Kamalakhya Dey Purkayastha, a Congress politician, resigned from her position as state Congress working president earlier this month. She and another party legislator Basanta Das both stated their support for the “development agenda” of the administration headed by the BJP.
