New Delhi: The Congress excessive command has didn’t placate the Assam unit’s ex-chief Bhupen Borah, who resigned Monday, alleging that incumbent state unit president Gaurav Gogoi had failed to supply a “clear response” to “severe allegations” of his alleged hyperlinks with Pakistan—fees introduced by Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma.

In a letter to Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, Borah underlined that the allegations in opposition to Gogoi had inflicted the “gravest harm” on the Congress occasion in Assam, the place elections are due in two months.

“The opaque circumstances surrounding these (Pakistan) visits, and the air of reticence that has since prevailed, have inevitably positioned him below scrutiny. I had urged that he deal with the matter forthrightly and dispel any doubts. As an alternative, the hesitation and equivocation have solely deepened public misgivings. In politics, notion typically carries as a lot weight as actuality, and silence not often serves as an ample defence. The picture of the Congress occasion stands gravely impaired, its credibility diminished…” Borah wrote.

Borah has additionally accused Gogoi of being below the spell of Lok Sabha MP Rakibul Hussain.

The CM’s fees have been largely based mostly on an Assam authorities SIT report submitted in 2025. Whereas the Assam authorities has referred the case in opposition to Gogoi to the Ministry of House Affairs, citing jurisdictional constraints on state police, Gogoi has dismissed the fees.

Gogoi has maintained he went to Pakistan in 2013 on a non-public go to along with his spouse, Elizabeth Colburn, a British citizen who labored with a global NGO in Pakistan in 2011.

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Borah’s letter: ‘Loyalty met with disregard’

In his letter to Kharge, Borah, who received twice as an MLA from the Bihpuria constituency and misplaced the 2016 and 2021 meeting polls, stated that the Congress’s woes have been compounded by the “prevailing notion” in Assam that Rakibul Hussain, who received the 2024 Lok Sabha polls by a margin of 10.12 lakh votes in opposition to AIUDF chief Badruddin Ajmal within the Muslim-majority Dhubri constituency, is steering the state unit.

Borah was entrusted with heading the Assam Pradesh Congress Committee after the occasion’s second consecutive election debacle within the state in 2021. Nonetheless, in Might 2025, the occasion changed Borah with Gogoi, the son of former three-term Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi.

The transfer didn’t sit properly with Borah, who talked about it in his letter to Kharge.

Borah blamed Hussain for orchestrating a marketing campaign in opposition to him after the Panchayat polls, by which the Congress carried out dismally, following which Borah was eliminated as state unit chief.

“Within the Panchayat elections, candidate choice was entrusted on to the district Congress committee presidents, rendering the Assam Pradesh Congress Committee management, together with me, as president largely decorative in that course of. This occurred below express course from the AICC, as personally conveyed by the AICC Common Secretary duo, Sri Jitendra Singh ji and Syed Naseer Hussain,” Borah wrote.

Borah added that regardless of being denied a significant supervisory position, within the aftermath of the ballot debacle, he was held accountable and “unceremoniously” faraway from the publish of president, following a purported signature marketing campaign led by Hussain.

“Conventionally, an APCC president is afforded the chance to steer the occasion into an meeting election,” Bohra stated in his letter. “I alone was disadvantaged of that honour with out discernible fault. Even then, I welcomed Sri Gaurav Gogoi in a well mannered way and prolonged my fullest cooperation. But my loyalty and self-discipline have been met with disregard, a sentiment I communicated to the suitable management throughout the AICC.”

Borah added that his disagreements with Gogoi predate the latter’s appointment as Assam Congress president, highlighting his strategic efforts to maneuver the Congress away from its alliance with the All India United Democratic Entrance as a result of he believed that being related to the AIUDF allowed the BJP to “polarise” voters—with “pro-minority” labels—which harmed the occasion’s prospects in elections.

However, the Assam Sanmilito Morcha, a coalition of 16 events, together with the Congress, which Borah was main, had needed to subject a CPI(ML) candidate within the Behali meeting bypoll in 2024, however the Gogoi faction pressured the central management to subject a Congress candidate as a substitute, resulting in the collapse of the alliance.

Borah’s letter stated it was “profoundly disconcerting when Sri Gaurav Gogoi launched into the electoral fray a person who had beforehand sought the BJP nomination from the Behali meeting constituency, and who was accorded the INC ticket even earlier than formally becoming a member of our ranks”.

“This growth wounded the sensibilities of our alliance companions and precipitated the collapse of the coalition, compelling me to relinquish the chairmanship of the alliance.”

Jayanta Borah, a former BJP chief who joined Congress simply earlier than the polls, was lastly fielded by the Gogoi faction. The Congress’s vote share in Behali did improve within the election, however its candidate misplaced to the BJP by 9,051 votes.

(Edited by Madhurita Goswami)

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