Former BJP MP RP Sarmah joins Congress

Former BJP MP from Assam's Tezpur seat Ram Prasad Sarmah has joined the Congress Sarmah along with many others, including senior journalist Zamsher Ali, joined the Congress here on Sunday.

Sarmah, who is from the Gorkha community, had won the 2014 Lok Sabha polls from the Tezpur seat on a BJP ticket He had resigned from the BJP in 2019 after his name was not included in the party candidate list for the Lok Sabha elections.

He claimed that the Congress will win at least 80 seats out of 126 in the Assembly polls in Assam next year "I do not have any religion. I eat at any place if I wish to have good food. I have mutton at a Nepali household, fish at Assamese, curd at Muslims of char areas and local liquor at the houses of tribal people," Sarmah said at the Assam Congress headquarters here on Sunday..