When Pradyut Bordoloi, Congress MP from Assam’s Nagaon, bumped into Minister of State Ravneet Bittu in the corridors of Parliament on Wednesday, he hugged him and exclaimed, “Now I will also be called a traitor.” The “traitor” jibe was an veiled dig at Rahul Gandhi, who had earlier jabbed Bittu on the steps of Makar … Read more
Senior Congress leader and Lok Sabha MP Pradyut Bordoloi on Wednesday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), claiming he had faced humiliation within the party after supporting Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, amid a series of high-profile defections ahead of the Assam Assembly elections. Pradyut Bordoloi, a two-time MP from Assam’s Nagaon constituency, formally joined the … Read more
“Congressis like me can never leave the party. It’s impossible for us to imagine politics beyond the Congress,” I remember Pradyut Bordoloi telling a group of journalists from Assam at a meeting in New Delhi’s Press Club in 2016. Himanta Biswa Sarma had recently quit the Congress to join the BJP in 2015, and amid … Read more