A month before the Lok Sabha elections in Assam, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Part’s (BJP) top minority leader Aminul Haque Laskar resigned and joined the Congress on Wednesday.
Laskar became the Assam BJP’s first minority MLA in 2016. He is a former MLA from the Sonai assembly constituency. Once a deputy speaker of the Assam assembly, Laskar was appointed the chairperson of the Assam State Commission for Minorities. In 2021, he lost to All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF)’s Karim Uddin Barbhuiya.
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“BJP has lost its ideology in Assam. I had been with the BJP for 13 years, the BJP of those days and now is a lot different. That time BJP used to talk about change,” Laskar told NDTV.
The leader joined Congress in the presence of the party’s Assam in-charge Jitendra Singh Alwar on Wednesday.
Assam will vote in three phases on April 19, April 26 and May 7 for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.