Former Assam MP Ram Prasad Sarmahtoday officially joined the Congress. Sarmah, accompanied by former Chief MinisterTarun Gogoi, on February 23 met AICC general secretary K.C. Venugopal in NewDelhi.
Sarmah joined the Congress at anevent on Sunday at Rajiv Bhawan in the presence of Assam PCC president RipunBora and other senior leaders. Sharma had last year resigned from the BJP ashis name was not in the list of probable candidates for Tezpur constituency.The party fielded sitting MLA and Minister Pallab Lochan Das.
Asked why he had chosen to jointhe Congress, Sharma spoke of nearly a century-old association of his familywith the party.
He said his grandfather was a founder-member of the Assam Congress and he himself was once an NSUI general secretary of district level.
