Assam: Pradyut Bordoloi steps down as MP, resignation accepted by Om Birla

New Delhi: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Tuesday announced that the resignation of MP from Assam Pradyut Bordoloi, who quit the Congress and joined the BJP, has been accepted.

Bordoloi, who was elected to the Lok Sabha from Nagaon for two consecutive terms on Congress ticket, resigned from the opposition party on March 17 and subsequently joined the BJP.

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The saffron party a day later gave him a ticket to contest the forthcoming Assam assembly elections from Dispur seat.

The Speaker said the resignation of Bordoloi as Lok Sabha MP has been accepted with effect from March 20.

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Bordoloi was a minister in Assam's then Tarun Gogoi-led Congress government for 15 years before being elected to Lok Sabha for two terms.