Guwahati: Assam Congress chief, additionally a member of the All India Congress Committee (AICC), Poritush Roy, resigned from the celebration on Saturday (November 11), saying that the grand outdated celebration is favouring solely the ‘blue-blooded’ folks. In his resignation letter addressed to Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, Roy, who’s the Working President of the Assam Pradesh Youth Congress (APYC), stated, “I want to let that I’d not be capable of proceed on this organisation as it’s favouring solely blue-blooded folks. It’s now felt that the voice of individuals like us, who come from decrease strata of the society, shouldn’t be heard on this organisation.”
Roy, a former Nationwide Secretary of the Indian Youth Congress (IYC) and the Nationwide College students’ Union of India (NSUI), stated that the Congress prefers ‘household first and nation final.’
“Whereas working on this organisation, I’ve realised that, from Dispur to Delhi, this organisation prefers household first and nation final. Therefore, it has change into virtually inconceivable to work on this organisation and it’ll endanger the curiosity of the frequent folks of the nation,” Roy added in his resignation letter.
In yet one more blow to the Indian Nationwide Congress (INC) forward of the 2024 Lok Sabha election, the Nagaon district President of the Assam Pradesh Congress, Suresh Borah, resigned from the celebration on Thursday (November 9).
Later, each Poritush Roy and Suresh Borah joined the Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP) at a becoming a member of programme on Saturday.
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma in a put up on X stated, “I’ve all the time confused on the truth that those that need to work for Bharat and Assam don’t have any place in dynastic and household centric events as solely @BJP4India works within the curiosity of the nation.I welcome those that might be becoming a member of the celebration at this time of their purpose of serving Maa Bharti.”
The author is a senior unbiased journalist protecting the Northeast.