Guwahati, Sep 8 (PTI) Former Assam Congress chief Ripun Bora, who had just lately resigned because the state Trinamool Congress president, returned to the grand previous occasion on Sunday.
AICC common secretary in-charge of the state, Jitendra Singh, welcomed Bora again into the occasion fold at the start of an Prolonged Government Committee assembly at Charaideo.
In addition to Singh, state Congress president Bhupen Kumar Borah, Chief of Opposition Debabrata Saikia and different leaders had been current on the event.
“On behalf of AICC, I welcome Ripun Bora again into the occasion. It’s a ‘ghar wapsi’ (returning dwelling) for him,” Singh mentioned.
He maintained that although Bora could have joined TMC and have become its state president, Congress is in his DNA.
“We’re completely satisfied that he has returned with none situation. He’s with us as a celebration member,” Singh added.
Bora, expressing happiness on returning to the Congress, mentioned, “For no matter causes, I had left Congress for two-and-a-half-years. However it’s the demand of the state and nation that BJP must be uprooted from energy, and Congress is the one occasion which may do it.” He maintained that remaining with TMC would solely result in opposition vote division, which is able to assist the saffron occasion, and therefore, he determined to return to his previous occasion.
“The folks of Assam are fed up with the misrule of the BJP authorities. We’ll all work collectively to strengthen the Congress additional and expose the ruling alliance’s corruption and communalism earlier than the folks,” Bora added.
After formally becoming a member of @INCIndia in Charaideo, attended the Prolonged State Government assembly of @INCAssam.
I’m very completely satisfied and privileged to take part within the assembly together with AICC GS @JitendraSAlwar, APCC President @BhupenKBorah and different senior Congress leaders. pic.twitter.com/GcXyPtLfr0
— Ripun Bora (@ripunbora) September 8, 2024
State Congress chief Borah mentioned the return of the previous chief has been facilitated after dialogue with the AICC and hoped that his coming again will strengthen the occasion additional.
A number of high functionaries of state TMC additionally joined the Congress together with Bora.
Bora, a former state cupboard minister and likewise an ex-MP who had left Congress in April 2022, had resigned from the Trinamool Congress on September 1, claiming that the folks of the northeastern state take into account it as a “regional occasion” of West Bengal and are “not keen to just accept” it as their very own.
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