BJP Veteran Quits Assam Government Post Over Delimitation Protest

Guwahati: 

Veteran BJP leader and former Union Minister Rajen Gohain today resigned as the chairman of Assam Food and Civil Supplies Corporation in protest against the delimitation of the Nagaon Lok Sabha constituency.

In his resignation letter to Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, Mr Gohain said it will be impossible for the party to win from that seat.

Mr Gohain, who represented the parliamentary seat four times, said his discussions with Mr Sarma regarding the delimitation exercise “did not bring any positive outcome”.

Nobody should be given absolute power in the party’s state unit, Mr Gohain told reporters without naming anybody, news agency PTI reported.

In the letter to the Chief Minister, Mr Gohain said the recent delimitation process has left the Nagaon Lok Sabha constituency “unwinnable for BJP candidates in the future and has also put the people of the constituency under threat due to demographic change”.