Former Union Minister and four-time BJP MP Rajen Gohain joined the Assam Jaitya Parishad weeks after quitting BJP, accusing the party of failing Assam and its indigenous communities ahead of state polls

Former union minister and four-time BJP MP Rajen Gohain on Wednesday joined regional political outfit Assam Jaitya Parishad (AJP).

Gohain, who had resigned from the BJP on October 9, switched over to the regional party at a programme here in the presence of AJP president Lurinjyoti Gohain and general secretary Jagadish Bhuyan, among others. Read More

He had represented the Nagaon parliamentary constituency for four terms from 1999 to 2019 and had served as the Union Minister of State for Railways from 2016 to 2019.

Gohain, 74, had said that he resigned from the BJP as the party had

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