Former state chief gets key organisational role as party leadership plays down exit and signals more defections could follow before elections Bhupen Borah (centre) joins the BJP in the presence of ...

Former Assam Congress president Bhupen Kumar Borah joined BJP on Sunday (February 22, 2026), a week after quitting the party he served for almost 33 years. State BJP president and MP Dilip Saikia ...

NEW DELHI: Former Assam Congress president Bhupen Borah on Sunday joined the BJP, days after stepping down from the Congress ahead of the upcoming assembly elections in the state.Former Congress ...

Former Assam Congress president Bhupen Kumar Borah on Sunday formally joined the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), marking a significant political shift ahead of the upcoming state Assembly ...

Assam Elections 2026: Bhupen Borah, 55, former president of the Congress party in Assam, will join the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) on 22 February, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Tuesday ...

Fractures in the Congress' Assam unit - unwelcome with an election weeks away - made headlines Monday after former chief Bhupen Borah, threatened to quit a party he has represented for 32 years. To ...

Just days before senior Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra was scheduled to begin a two-day visit to Assam, the party was jolted by the resignation of former state chief Bhupen Kumar Borah. The ...

Senior leaders meet him after shock move as resignation not accepted yet and he weighs final call amid internal tensions in Assam unit Former Assam Pradesh Congress Committee president Bhupen Kumar ...

“If he wants to join the BJP, we will welcome him, but even if he does not want to do so, we extend our best wishes to him,” Sarma told reporters.Sarma described Borah as the “last Hindu leader” in ...

He further informed that Rahul Gandhi, also spoke with Borah. Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi on Monday praised Assam Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) chief Bhupen Kumar Borah, calling him a "strong ...

Hours after submitting his resignation, former Assam Congress chief Bhupen Borah has sought time to reconsider his decision of quitting the party. Bhupen Borah's resignation was not accepted by the ...

Former Assam Congress chief Bhupen Kumar Borah submitted his resignation to Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Monday, but withdrew it just hours later, AICC state in-charge Jitendra Singh said.