3 Weeks To Polls: Exodus From Assam Congress

It had been building up for some time, Assam Congress MP Pradyut Bordoloi conceded today after he crossed over to the rival BJP, dashing his parent party's hopes just weeks before the April 9 state polls.

The start, he said, was his backing of Shashi Tharoor's run for the Congress chief.

"I have been feeling a little, I would say, humiliated. Probably the reason, it all started from, you know, when I decided to side with Shashi Tharoor. In the organisational election, Shashi Tharoor put forward his candidature and I was his proposer. I don't know why, because I thought that of promoting a thriving democracy inside the party as we had a lot of examples in the past," Bordoloi, who was the chairman of the Congress manifesto committee, told reporters today after he joined his new party.