Bhaskar Jyoti Baruah: Assam Congress MLA Bhaskar Jyoti Baruah shares dais with Sonowal, fuels speculation about joining BJP

The presence of Titabor Congress MLA Bhaskar Jyoti Baruah within the Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal’s Jan Ashirwad Yatra programme has fuelled hypothesis if Baruah is the subsequent Congress chief to hitch BJP in Assam.

Baruah felicitated Sonowal and shared dais with Sonowal in Jorhat throughout Ashirwad Yatra. Baruah, nonetheless, refuted hypothesis of his becoming a member of BJP.

He mentioned, “The programme was shared by the Deputy commissioner to MLAs. I assumed it was a authorities programme. I’ve no plans of becoming a member of the BJP.”

Titabor meeting was represented by former Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi for a number of phrases within the state meeting.

Just lately, Congress chief Sushanta Borgohain in Assam joined BJP. Thowra MLA Sushanta Borgohain resigned from the meeting.

Assam went to meeting polls in March-April this 12 months. Whereas one Congress MLA Rupjyoti Kurmi has resigned and joined BJP, there are two different seats which have fallen vacant because of the demise of MLA. Majuli seat has fallen vacant as former Chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal was inducted within the Union Council of ministers. Sonowal is prone to get elected from Rajya Sabha as Rajya Sabha MP Biswajit Daimary had resigned final 12 months from the Higher Home and he’s now Speaker of the state meeting.

Tamulpur constituency MLA Leho Ram Boro of the United Individuals’s Occasion Liberal (UPPL) died of COVID-19. Gossaigaon MLA Majendra Narzary of the Bodoland Individuals’s Entrance (BPF) died following post-Covid issues.

Congress had earlier alleged that BJP is nervous and needs to the touch the determine of 64 in the home of 126 and as soon as that’s achieved it’s going to snap ties with allies.

The UPPL is an ally of the BJP, which is heading the federal government in Assam. The BJP-led NDA secured 75 seats within the 126-member meeting, 11 seats lower than in 2016.

The BJP received 60 seats which is analogous to the quantity it received 5 years in the past. The Asom Gana Parishad received 9 seats in opposition to 14 seats final time, whereas the brand new alliance companion, United Individuals’s Occasion Liberal, obtained six seats.

Previous to the polls, Ajanta Neog and Rajdeep Goala had been the opposite Congress leaders within the state who had left the occasion. Neog is a minister within the current authorities.