{"id":238002,"date":"2024-03-31T00:18:15","date_gmt":"2024-03-30T18:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=238002"},"modified":"2024-03-31T00:18:15","modified_gmt":"2024-03-30T18:48:15","slug":"exploring-legal-options-borah-on-himantas-claim-of-cong-chief-joining-bjp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2024\/03\/31\/exploring-legal-options-borah-on-himantas-claim-of-cong-chief-joining-bjp\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring legal options: Borah on Himanta&#8217;s claim of Cong chief joining BJP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Guwahati, Mar 30 (PTI) Assam Congress president Bhupen Kumar Borah said on Saturday that he is exploring legal options against Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma over the latter&#8217;s assertion that Borah will join the BJP.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I have discussed with my lawyer and he will let me know how to go about it,&#8221; Borah told PTI here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sarma has been making statements before the media, claiming that Borah will be joining the ruling BJP by early next year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Refuting the claim, Borah said, &#8220;The CM is publicly announcing time and again that he is ready to give me minister&#8217;s post, even chief ministership. But, I want to tell the people of Assam that I am not in politics for personal interest. I am here because of my ideology, commitment to people and the society.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He also wondered how the people will benefit if he becomes a part of the BJP.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stating that he and Sarma were in the Congress together, Borah added: &#8220;In 2014, when the wave was in favour of the BJP, Sarma understood it and joined the saffron party. I understood it, too, but I did not join that party as I am not someone who goes with the wave.&#8221; PTI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guwahati, Mar 30 (PTI) Assam Congress president Bhupen Kumar Borah said on Saturday that he is exploring legal options against Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma over the latter&#8217;s assertion that Borah will join the BJP. &#8220;I have discussed with my lawyer and he will let me know how to go about it,&#8221; Borah told PTI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-238002","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-north-east"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}